kylix

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Object Type
Description: Body sherd of Laconian black-figured pottery kylix; creamy slip; interior: black-figure decoration consisting of komos scene (from left, legs of komos dancer, to right; second dancer, legs with possible traces of added red on thighs remaining, to left); below, narrow black lines; exterior: hook maeander pattern between narrow and wide black bands; below, parts of rays.
Producer name
Cultures/periods: Laconian (III); Archaic Greek
Production date: 575BC-565BC (circa)
Production place: Made in: Laconia
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Naukratis
Materials
Ware
Technique: painted; slipped; incised
Dimensions: Height: 6.20 centimetres (joined); Thickness: 0.40 centimetres; Width: 9 centimetres
Curator's comments: The sherd joins Alexandria 9362. Venit notes the similarities between the incision lines on the thighs of the dancers with those of the winged daemons and male slave on the kylix Louvre E667, also by the Naukratis Painter.
Bibliographic references: Venit 1988 / Greek Painted Pottery from Naukratis in Egyptian Museums (p. 114, no. 398, p. 209, no. 398, pl. 83, no. 398); Möller 2000 / Naukratis, Trade in Archaic Greece (p. 239); Venit 1985 / Laconian Black Figure Pottery in Egypt (p. 392, no. 4, pl. 42, no. 1-2); Venit 1982 / Painted Pottery from the Greek Mainland found in Egypt, 640-450 BC (p. 548-9, no. E 5, pl. XXXIX, pl. CCLX); Villing et al 2013-2015 / Naukratis: Greeks in Egypt (GC.65) (phase 3)
Location: Not on display
Department: External
Additional IDs: Miscellaneous number: 9390 (Accession Number)

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