Emperor Tiberius's triumph. Silver skyphos with repoussé decoration, late 1st century BC–early 1st century AD. From the villa della Pisanella at Boscoreale, 1895.
Below: Attic skyphos depicting a hoplite, c. 490–480 BC
Material
Ceramic, glass, precious metals
Created
Multiple cultures, originating predominantly in Greece and exported.
Period/culture
A vaseform of the Iron Age
Place
Circum-Mediterranean
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