Black-Figure Band Skyphos (Drinking Cup): Sirens, Stags, and Panthers (c. 540 BCE): Art, History and Details

Black-Figure Band Skyphos (Drinking Cup): Sirens, Stags, and Panthers (c. 540 BCE) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Group of Rhodes 11941 (Greek, Attic).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

A siren, a mythological woman-headed bird, stands at the center of the figural band on either side of this cup, her wings spread and head turned to the left. Flanking her are a pair of grazing stags, with a panther on either side facing inward. Inside, the cup is sparsely decorated, its reserved tondo holding a dot within concentric circles.

Object facts

• Title: Black-Figure Band Skyphos (Drinking Cup): Sirens, Stags, and Panthers
• Date: c. 540 BCE
• Creator attribution: Group of Rhodes 11941 (Greek, Attic)
• Type: Ceramic
• Technique: ceramic
• Dimensions: Diameter: 22.5 cm (8 7/8 in.); Overall: 13.1 x 29.9 cm (5 3/16 x 11 3/4 in.); Diameter of foot: 9.7 cm (3 13/16 in.)
• Collection: GR - Greek
• Department: Greek and Roman Art
• Accession number: 1992.368

A detail from the museum

Three of four stags on this cup each appear to have just one ear.

Collection credit

Bequest of Maud Eells Corning

Further reading listed by the museum

• Beazley Archive. n.d. Beazley Archive Pottery Database. Oxford: Beazley Archive.
• Beazley, J. D., J. D. Beazley, and J. D. Beazley. Paralipomena: Additions to Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters and to Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters (Second Edition). Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971.
• “1993 Annual Report.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 81, no. 6 (July 1994): 143–218.

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