gordion cup

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Object Type: gordion cup
Museum number: 1948,0815.2
Description: Lip and body sherd of Attic black-figured pottery Gordion cup; interior: glazed black with reserved band below offset to lip; exterior: lip glazed black; narrow black band at top of handle zone; in reserved handle zone incised handle palmette and tendril (seven petals alternating added red and black; red heart, possibly with added white dot in centre).
Producer name: Made by: Ergotimos (potter); Painted by: Kleitias
Cultures/periods: Attic; Archaic Greek
Production date: 570BC-560BC (circa)
Production place: Made in: Attica (Greece)
Excavator/field collector: Excavated by: Egypt Exploration Fund
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Naukratis
Materials: pottery
Ware: Black Figure
Technique: painted; incised
Dimensions: Height: 4 centimetres; Thickness: 0.20 centimetres; Width: 4 centimetres
Curator's comments: The sherd belongs to the same vase as British Museum 1888,0601.424, 1888,0601.425, 1888,0601.427, 1888,0601.215, 1948,0815.1 and Cambridge, Fitzwilliam GR.206.1894. The pieces are gathered in Hirayama, H. 2010 Kleitias and Attic Black-figure Vases in the Sixth Century B.C., pl. 25.
Bibliographic references: Brijder Siana III 2000 / Siana Cups III: The Red-black Painter, Griffin-bird Painter, and Siana Cups resembling Lip-cups (p. 556, no. G2) (Ergotimos-Kleitias Group); Robertson 1951 / Gordion cups from Naukratis (p. 143, no. 1); ABV / Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (p. 78, no. 14); Venit 1982 / Painted Pottery from the Greek Mainland found in Egypt, 640-450 BC (p. 381, no. B533); Venit 1984 / Early Attic Black Figure Vases in Egypt (p. 153, note 82); Möller 2000 / Naukratis, Trade in Archaic Greece (p. 230, no. 1); Villing et al. 2013-2025 / Naukratis: Greeks in Egypt (GA.0421) (Phase 1)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: ornament (palmette)
Acquisition name: Donated by: Egypt Exploration Fund
Acquisition date: 1948
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1948,0815.2
Joined objects: Associated Group: G16281 (6 objects)

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