Black-Glaze Cup

Attic Black-Glaze One-Handled Cup Shape and Ornament - Convex body, disk foot. Fully glazed except for underside of foot, which has four concentric glazed bands, one thick and three thin around a central dot, all over a red wash. Dimensions and Condition - H. 0.045 m.; w. with handle 0.16 m.; d. rim 0.122 m.; d. base 0.075 m. Fine red clay, glossy black glaze with blue metallic sheen. Intact, incrusted. Second half of the fifth century B.C. -- Wisseman, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Plate 35, 7.

Agora P 15107 (Sparkes and Talcott, The Athenian Agora vol. 12: Black and Plain Pottery of the 6th, 5th, and 4th Centuries B.C., 1970. Pp.126, 289, no. 740, pl. 31). Royal Ontario Museum 946.100.2 (Hayes, Greek and Italian Black-gloss Wares and Related Wares in the Royal Ontario Museum, 1984. Pp. 25-26, no. 38, with additional comparanda.)

James, T.G.H. Excavating in Egypt: The Egypt Exploration Society 1882-1982. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982. Wisseman, Sarah U. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Philipp von Zabern: Mainz, 1989. Page 33, Plate 35, 7. PETRIE, W. M. F., Naukratis. Part I., 1884-5. Third Memoir of the Egypt Exploration Fund, London, 1886. GARDNER, E. A., Naukratis, Part II. Sixth Memoir of the Egypt Exploration Fund, London, 1888. Naukratis: Greeks in Egypt, The British Museum (online catalogue)