Skyphos (bowl)
Archaeological museum Messenia, Kalamata
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Skyphos (bowl)
8th century BCE
Archaeological museum Messenia, Kalamata
Karpophora
Height: 1.9 cm
Skyphos (bowl), a drinking vessel, restored in parts of the body. Horizontal, upwardly inclining cylindrical handles. Black decoration. The central motif consists of a meander on each side, filled by oblique small lines. γραμμίδια. It is flanked by horizontal and vertical lines and a zig-zag pattern. Rhomboid motifs below the meanders and around the rim. Found in a chamber tomb with offerings of the geometric and classical periods at Karpophora, near the prehistoric settlement at Nichoria .