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cup
Object Type
cup
Museum number
AshmLoan.298
Description
Bowl sherd (mended from two fragments) of Attic red-figured pottery cup; interior: within a reserved border (possibly once framed by added red bands), red-figure decoration consisting of head and part of back of youth to right (faded red convolvulus wreath and outline of hair incised except over brow), wearing himation; relief-contour except for upper lip and lower side of nose; exterior glazed black; inscription on interior.
Producer name
Attributed to:
Oltos
Cultures/periods
Attic
Archaic Greek
Production date
525BC-510BC
(circa)
Production place
Made in:
Attica (Greece)
Findspot
Excavated/Findspot:
Hellenion (Naukratis)
, Close to Site 4 (Hogarth) and Site 3 (Hogarth) ('on the mud just outside its [Site 3] north-west and south walls': Hogarth et al. 1898-9, 31-2) [though Hogarth et al. 1898-9, 66, suggests a findspot close to the area of Site 19 (Hogarth), the 'Aphrodite shrine' ]
Materials
pottery
Ware
Red Figure
Technique
painted
Dimensions
Diameter:
12 centimetres
(circa (tondo))
Height:
6.50 centimetres
Thickness:
0.50 centimetres
Width:
12 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
Object owned and held by the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. This record is included in the British Museum database as part of the Museum’s Naukratis Project, a research collaboration that aims to virtually re-unite finds from the ancient port city of Naukratis, now distributed over 80 museums worldwide.
Hogarth explains how this sherd was excavated in the region just outside of the north-west and south walls of Chamber 3 in the Hellenion (Hogarth 1898-1899, 32).
Bibliographic references
Edgar 1898/1899 / Excavations at Naukratis. B: The Inscribed and Painted Pottery
(p. 56, no. 92, pl. VIII, no. 10)
ARV / Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters
(p. 66, no. 124)
Venit 1982 / Painted Pottery from the Greek Mainland found in Egypt, 640-450 BC
(p. 508, no. C67)
Möller 2000 / Naukratis, Trade in Archaic Greece
(p. 236, no. 5)
Bernand 1970 / Le Delta égyptien d'après les textes grecs, i: les confins libyques
(p. 703, no. 615)
Villing et al 2013-2015 / Naukratis: Greeks in Egypt
(GA.0698)
(Phase 1)
CVA Oxford I / Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Great Britain Fasc. 3, Oxford Fasc. 1
(p. 12, pl. XIV, no. 3)
Hogarth 1898/1899 / Excavations at Naukratis, A. Site and Buildings
(p. 32, no. 92, pl. VIII, no. 10)
Location
Not on display
Associated names
Named in inscription:
Aphrodite/Venus
Previous owner
Currently owned by:
Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
Department
External
Registration number
AshmLoan.298
Additional IDs
Miscellaneous number:
AN1896-1908-G.138.2
(Accession Number)