band-cup

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Object Type
Description: Body sherd of Attic black-figured pottery band-cup; interior black; exterior: black-figure decoration consisting of satyrs and maenads progressing right (from left, only legs remaining of first satyr; maenad, only head and shoulders, with added red on peplos and added white for flesh; to right, upper body and head missing of ithyphallic satyr); below, black.
Cultures/periods: Attic; Archaic Greek
Production date: 550BC-540BC (circa)
Production place: Made in: Attica (Greece)
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Naukratis
Materials
Ware
Technique: painted; incised
Dimensions: Height: 4.30 centimetres; Thickness: 0.40 centimetres; Width: 4.70 centimetres
Curator's comments: For parallels regarding the iconography, see Moore and Pease Philippides, 'The Athenian Agora xxii. Attic Black-Figured Pottery', 1986, no. 1708.
Bibliographic references: Venit 1988 / Greek Painted Pottery from Naukratis in Egyptian Museums (p. 88-9 no. 298 pl. 66); Venit 1982 / Painted Pottery from the Greek Mainland found in Egypt, 640-450 BC (p. 402-3, no. B599, pl. XXVII, pl. CXCIX); Villing et al 2013-2015 / Naukratis: Greeks in Egypt (GA.1370) (phase 3)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: satyr; classical mythological figure/creature
Department: External
Additional IDs: Miscellaneous number: 9554 (Accession Number)

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