Perseus Art and Archaeology Browser

ID:

aa_5567

Type:

Vase

Date:

ca. -565 — ca. -560

Period:

High Archaic

Context:

From Gordion

Region:

Phrygia

Painter:

Signed by Kleitias

Potter:

Signed by Ergotimos

Condition:

The vase is in fairly good condition. Some of the fragments have been blackened by fire, others are pitted and scraped.

Dimensions:

H. 10.5 cm., d. 17.7 cm.

Ware:

Attic Black Figure

Shape:

Gordion cup

Decoration Description

Interior: three dolphins and a fish. Three dolphins and a fish swim in a circular pattern in the tondo. The dolphins swim with bellies toward the center, the fish with its belly toward the outline of the tondo.

Sides A and B: inscriptions. Palmettes frame the inscriptions on either side.

Graffiti

On the exterior is the inscription: *E*R*G*O*T[*I*M*O*S *M*E*P*O*I]*E*S*E*N; [*K*L*I*T]*I*A*S *M*E*G*R*A*F*S*E*N, "Ergotimos made me, Klitias painted me."

Collection:

Berlin, Antikenmuseen

Citations and Bibliography

ABV, 78.13; Beazley Addenda 2, 22

Krte 1904, pl. 7 and p. 141.

Pfuhl 1923, figs. 213-214; Hoppin 1924, 149; Boardman 1974, fig. 108.1,2; M. Davies 1978, 93, fig. 1; Beazley 1986, pl. 44.1-3.