The Charitonidis Class
A group of large Athenian Late Protogeometric skyphoi
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Athenian Acropolis, pottery, Late Protogeometric period, skyphosAbstract
This article assembles and publishes a group of distinctive large Athenian Late Protogeometric skyphoi. Aspects of shape and decoration are fully discussed, so too the evidence for establishing the date of the group, as well as their distribution. The group, if not the potter, is named after the man who published two complete examples of the class from the South Slope of the Athenian Acropolis: Serapheim Charitonidis.
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