band-cup

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Object Type
Description: Body sherd of Attic black-figured pottery band-cup; interior glazed; exterior: lip glazed; in handle zone, black-figure decoration consisting of centaur to right (part of head, chest, left arm, part of hind leg and forelegs missing; added red for hair, on back, haunches and tail), arm stretched out behind him.
Cultures/periods: Attic; Archaic Greek
Production date: 550BC-525BC
Production place: Made in: Attica (Greece)
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Naukratis
Materials
Ware
Technique: painted; incised
Dimensions: Height: 2.80 centimetres; Thickness: 0.25 centimetres; Width: 3 centimetres
Curator's comments: For other centaurs on band cups, see see Moore and Pease Philippides, 'The Athenian Agora xxii. Attic Black-Figured Pottery', 1986, no. 1720.
Bibliographic references: Venit 1988 / Greek Painted Pottery from Naukratis in Egyptian Museums (p. 89 no. 299 pl. 66); Venit 1982 / Painted Pottery from the Greek Mainland found in Egypt, 640-450 BC (p. 404, no. B604, pl. XXVII); Villing et al 2013-2015 / Naukratis: Greeks in Egypt (GA.1371) (phase 3)
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Department: External
Additional IDs: Miscellaneous number: 9539 (Accession Number)

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