- Offering spoons
- New Year's flasks
- Ceramic inscriptions
- Chian pottery
- Amun temple
- Mixed style faience vessels
- Stone vessels
- Corinthian pottery
- Laconian pottery
- Local Greek pottery
- Late period pottery
- Vase inscriptions
- Figures introduction
- Cypriot figures
- Greek terracotta figures
- Ptolemaic and Roman figures
- Late period figures
- Portable stoves
- Greek transport amphorae
- Stamped amphorae
- Lamps
- Foundation deposits
- Bronze offerings
- Mixed style faience figures
- Stone inscriptions
- Tools and weapons
- Greek and Roman sculpture
- Ptolemaic-Roman faience vases
- Jewellery and mirrors
- Altars sundials models
- Ptolemaic-byzantine pottery
- Scarabs scaraboids and amulets
- Ptolemaic-Byzantine amphorae
- Attic pottery
Naukratis: Greeks in Egypt
Alexandra Villing, Marianne Bergeron, Giorgos Bourogiannis, Alan Johnston, François Leclère, Aurélia Masson and Ross Thomas
With Daniel von Recklinghausen, Jeffrey Spencer, Valerie Smallwood, Virginia Webb and Susan Woodford
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Inscriptions on Greek Vases
Alan Johnston
The inscriptions on vases discussed in this chapter are those painted on pots together with (and often identifying) the other decoration. An exception is the body of bespoke dedicatory painted texts, found especially on Chian vases, which are treated in the chapter on Ceramic inscriptions. The resulting corpus consists of a few Corinthian kraters of 580–550 BC and a fuller range of Attic vases from the earlier 6th century BC; extremely few are known from later than c. 480 BC. Of note are some Panathenaic prize amphora fragments and a range of black-figure kylikes with makers' inscriptions, which have previously attracted the attention of excavators and scholars such as Sir John Beazley and Martin Robertson.
Attic lip-cup fragment showing an octopus and the legend ‘po]lypos’. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, AN 1898-1908-G.1000. Photograph © Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. Photography by British Museum staff