Terracotta skyphos (deep drinking cup), mid-5th century

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Terracotta skyphos (deep drinking cup), Classical, mid-5th century , Greek, Attic, Terracotta; red-figure, H. 2 1/4 in. ( cm), Vases, Obverse and reverse, owl between laurel sprays. The owl was Athena's animal attribute. It figures most prominently as the device on the reverse of Athenian coinage. It also decorates a rather large group of fifth-century vases such as this one, which are known as owl skyphoi

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