drinking-cup
- Museum number
- 1836,0224.66
- Description
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Pottery: black-figured cup. Under each handle, interlacing vines, spreading out each side, with bunches of grapes.
Interior: Gorgoneion, carelessly executed, with curls, tusks and protruding tongue.
Exterior: (a) Poseidon (or Nereus?) seated on a sea-horse to right, with long white beard and tresses, fillet, and embroidered himation, in right hand a trident. The animal has the head, neck, and forelegs of a horse and ends in a fish's tail with border. On either side are eyes, the pupils black, with rings of purple, white, and black, the rest in white, with black outlines, (b) Similar design: Poseidon/Nereus has left hand extended, and holds the trident with the fork behind, not in front.
- Production date
- 520BC-500BC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 301 millimetres
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Height: 120 millimetres
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Weight: 842 millimetres
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Width: 376 millimetres
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Depth: 302 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- BM Cat. Vases
Gerhard, A.V. pl. 8, 1, and p.36; Él. Cér. iii. 1; Overbeck, Kunstmyth. (Poseidon), p. 217; Stephani, Compte-Rendu, 1866, p. 91, n. 7.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2020-2022 - Falmouth, National Maritime Museum, "Monsters of the Deep: science fact and fiction"
- Acquisition date
- 1836
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1836,0224.66
