band-cup

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Object Type: band-cup
Museum number: 1900,0214.7
Description: Rim sherd of Attic black-figured pottery band-cup with top of handle zone; interior glazed black with reserved band at junction of lip and body; exterior: lip black; below in handle zone, black-figure decoration consisting of part of wing of siren or sphinx, possibly to left; dab of added red on wing; inscription incised on exterior of lip.
Cultures/periods: Attic; Archaic Greek
Production date: 550BC-525BC (circa)
Production place: Made in: Attica (Greece)
Excavator/field collector: Excavated by: Dr David George Hogarth
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Naukratis
Materials: pottery
Ware: Black Figure
Technique: painted; incised
Dimensions: Diameter: 28 centimetres (about); Height: 3.50 centimetres; Thickness: 0.30 centimetres; Width: 4.60 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references: Edgar 1898/1899 / Excavations at Naukratis. B: The Inscribed and Painted Pottery (p. 55, no. 60); Venit 1982 / Painted Pottery from the Greek Mainland found in Egypt, 640-450 BC (p. 414, no. B638); Möller 2000 / Naukratis, Trade in Archaic Greece (p. 235, no. 8); Bernand 1970 / Le Delta égyptien d'après les textes grecs, i: les confins libyques (p. 701, no. 583); Villing et al. 2013-2025 / Naukratis: Greeks in Egypt (GA.0513) (Phase 1)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: siren (possibly); sphinx (possibly)
Acquisition name: Donated by: British School at Athens
Acquisition date: 1900
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1900,0214.7

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