M0016188EA: Skyphos (wine cup) showing youth with strigil, a woman juggling and palmettes and volutes

Previous title, replaced March 2022: Skyphos, red figure technique, showing youth with striglil woman juggling, also palmettes and volutes

Photograph of a 4th century BC skyphos from Apulias, Southern Italy, decorated with a red figure technique showing a youth with a strigil, a woman juggling and palmettes and volutes. It was purchased by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1932 and accessioned in 1936 (accession number R394/1936). It is not held by Wellcome Collection. Related images: M0016188EB, M0016188EC

1957

1 photograph glass plate negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides an entry for the item: accession number R394/1936.

Copyright is held by Wellcome Collection

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2021.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.