cup type b

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Object Type
Museum number: AshmLoan.331
Description: Lip and body sherd of Attic red-figured pottery type B cup with sharp offset on interior; interior glazed black; exterior: red-figure decoration consisting of satyr (part of head with added red wreath, chest, left arm and top of thigh remaining) rushing to right with head thrown back and holding out something, presumably a wineskin, in his left hand; at right, part of the first letter on an inscription; relief contour; graffito inscription on inside of lip.
Producer name
Cultures/periods: Attic; Archaic Greek
Production date: 510BC-500BC (circa)
Production place: Made in: Attica (Greece)
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Naukratis
Materials
Ware
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 4.60 centimetres; Thickness: 0.60 centimetres (at offset); Width: 4.50 centimetres
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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.; On the graffito see also Gill, D. W. J. ‘Two Herodotean dedications from Naukratis’, Journal of Hellenic Studies 106, 1986, 184-7.
Bibliographic references: ARV / Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters (p. 93, no. 93); Venit 1982 / Painted Pottery from the Greek Mainland found in Egypt, 640-450 BC (p. 505, no. C58); Möller 2000 / Naukratis, Trade in Archaic Greece (p. 237, no. 7); Hogarth, Lorimer & Edgar 1905 / Naukratis 1903 (no. 5); Bernand 1970 / Le Delta égyptien d'après les textes grecs, i: les confins libyques (p. 706, no. 648); Villing et al 2013-2015 / Naukratis: Greeks in Egypt (GA.0652) (Phase 1); CVA Oxford I / Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Great Britain Fasc. 3, Oxford Fasc. 1 (p. 13, pl. XIV, no. 21)
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Previous owner
Department: External
Registration number: AshmLoan.331
Additional IDs: Miscellaneous number: AN1896-1908-G.141.15 (Accession Number)

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