band-cup

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Object Type
Museum number: 1965,0930.768
Description: Body sherd (mended from two fragments with 1914,0317.6) of Attic black-figured pottery band-cup; interior: reserved band at top of rim, glazed black below; exterior: lip black; in handle zone black-figure decoration consisting probably of the return of Hephaistos (ear, mane, part of body and rump of donkey to left, ridden by youth in cloak; added red on donkey's ear, rump and genitals; red on youth's hair or cap, red cloak except for band at neck and bottom); to right, satyr with frontal face assaulting donkey from behind (with red spots on satyr's back); further red traces to right; painted nonsense inscription.
Cultures/periods: Attic; Archaic Greek
Production date: 560BC-540BC (circa)
Production place: Made in: Attica (Greece)
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Naukratis (probably); Excavated/Findspot: Tell Dafana (possibly)
Materials
Ware
Technique: painted; incised
Dimensions: Height: 3.40 centimetres (this sherd); Thickness: 0.30 centimetres (about); Width: 3.20 centimetres (this sherd)
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: The sherd joins British Museum 1914,0317.6. The museum register notes that 1965,0930.768 possibly comes from either Tell Dafana or Naukratis, but states that 1914,0317.6 comes from Naukratis. According to Beazley, the scene depicts the return of Hephaistos.
Bibliographic references: Beazley & Payne 1929 / Attic Black Figured Fragments from Naukratis (p. 269, no. 52); Venit 1982 / Painted Pottery from the Greek Mainland found in Egypt, 640-450 BC (p. 391, B564); Möller 2000 / Naukratis, Trade in Archaic Greece (p. 233, no. 8); Villing et al 2013-2015 / Naukratis: Greeks in Egypt (GA.0456) (Phase 1)
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Acquisition name
Acquisition notes: Previously unregistered.
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1965,0930.768
Joined objects: Joined Object Group: G16324 (2 objects)

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