The Attic black-figure skyphos (or perhaps rather more strictly, kotyle) of c. 580 B.C. shown here has already been published as of unknown provenance as the frontispiece of Sir Arthur W. Pickard-Cambridge, Dithyramb, Tragedy and Comedy (sides A and B) and in CVA Cambridge i pl. 2, 8a–b (side A and one of the handle zones). The purpose of this note is to draw attention to the extremely interesting provenance now established for it. At the same time, the opportunity has been taken to publish views of the side and handle zone not illustrated in the CVA and to add a few further comments on the condition of the vase, since such considerations have proved vital to its identification.
Previously known under the interim serial, Fitzwilliam Museum X5, as an object completely lacking any record of source or acquisition, it has now been able to be fully documented and formally inventoried as no. GR.126.1892. The vase has been assembled from many fragments and its foot is completely missing, but the walls are largely intact down to a little above or below the base-line to the figured scene.