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Gordion Cups from Naucratis
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 December 2013
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In JHS XLIX, 265 ff. Beazley and Payne, in their important publication of Attic b.f. fragments from Naucratis, put together a number of pieces from Little Master cups of the same special form as that in Berlin from Gordion, with the names of Ergotimos and Kleitias as potter and painter. In JHS LII, 186, Beazley included these fragments in his list of ‘Gordion Cups’. Working over the pottery from Naucratis in the British Museum and the Fitzwilliam I have identified other fragments of the same class. Altogether there are now over thirty separate fragments, which I have tentatively grouped as belonging to fourteen cups. Not all the associations are certain, but all are I think probable. Some of those suggested by Beazley and Payne appear to me impossible, and I have noted where I differ from them; but this paper is only an elaboration of a theme from their larger work—τέμαχος τῶν Ὁμήρου μεγάλων δείπνων.
I have divided the material into three groups:
I. Cups of exceptionally small and delicate make, some bearing the names of Ergotimos and Kleitias.
II. Slightly sturdier cups, some bearing the name of Sondros.
III. Miscellaneous fragments which cannot be closely associated with either of the other groups.
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1 I have also examined the Attic black-figure fragments from Naucratis in the Ashmolean and in the Department of Archaeology at University College London, but have found no pieces of this class among them.
2 JHS XLIX, 266; pl. XVII, 13, 14 and 16.
3 CVA Fasc. ii, III H, pl. XXI, 11.
4 Alternate petals may have been red (doubtful traces on central one).
5 Graef, 1773: ‘Aussen Rest einer Spiral-ranke mit rotem Riegel’. The interior tondo (loc. cit. pl. 87) has a border of tongues, with white dots (I do not know if the dividing lines are relief), between dot-bands, the dot-rows in each separated by a line of thinned glaze. I have not examined the original, but from illustration and description judge it to have been a Gordion. The interior picture, in a decent but not especially fine style, shows an odd collocation of animals, which Graef's parallels (whirligigs of protomes) do not really illuminate.
6 On 88.6–1.324; pointed out to me by Mr. P. E. Corbett.
7 JHS XLIX, 266; pl. XVII, 12.
8 Loc. cit. p. 55.
9 Funde aus Naukratis, 78.
10 Greek Black-Figure Vases, 82 no. 3.
11 1900.2–14.4. Beazley, in JHS LII, 192Google Scholar, discussing this piece, which bears the fragmentary name of Ergotimos, probably in a patronymic, says: ‘There seems to have been a black line at the top of the handle-zone, and I am inclined to think that the cup may have been a Gordion rather than a lip-cup, although the lettering is of the smaller, later type’. The line at the top of the handle-zone, however, is normal in lip-cups as well as Gordions, and there is no evidence here for the line at the bottom or for any other definite featureof a Gordion.
12 Cf. a fragmentary cup made by a son of Eucheiros, , JHS LII, 179Google Scholar, fig. 11.
13 Naucratis I, pl. 33, 446.
14 JHS XLIX 266; pl. XVII, 22.
15 Loc. cit. 266; pl. XVII, 18 and 15.
16 Loc. cit. 266; pl. XVII, 17. The Cambridge fragment is illustrated in CVA fasc. ii, III H, pl. XXI, 8.
17 Loc. cit. 266; pl. XVII, 11.
18 Loc. cit. 266; pl. XVII, 21.
19 Loc. cit. 266; pl. XVII, 19.
20 CVA, fasc. ii, III H, pl. XXI, 24.
21 Loc. cit. 267, no. 48; pl. XVI, 4.
22 Loc. cit. 267, no. 47; pl. XVI, 3; the number there wrongly given as 1909.2–16.2.
23 Some Attic Vases in the Cyprus Museum, 10, no. 11.
24 The foot attached to B424 is ancient but not relevant.
25 Another work of the same hand is surely the pseudo-Panathenaic from the Acropolis, Graef no. 923, pl. 59.
26 Mr. P. E. Corbett, who has also carefully examined these fragments, feels some doubt.
27 Loc. cit. 266.
28 JHS LII, 186.
29 Loc. cit. 270, no. 58; pl. XVII, 26.
30 Clara Rhodos, III, 34.
31 B417; JHS LII, 175.
32 JHS LII, 199. Black lip, sharply offset, tall and straight; no black line at bottom of handle-zone or reserved line at interior junction of rim; big lettering; stout-stemmed palmettes; no relief-line in tondo-border; short stem and narrow foot-plate. B419, whose figure work resembles that of B418, also has short stem and straight (but reserved) lip.