cup

Object Number

SMP7481

Name

cup

Description

Rim and body fragment of a cup. Everted rim

rounded body

conical knob (elliptical shape in section) just above maximum diameter of vessel. Semi-fine fabric

wheel-made. Inside body covered in dark slip

slipped light on dark decoration below rim (horizontal stripe inside

horizontal band outside)

slipped dark on light decoration on outside neck and upper body (panel filled with vertical stripes and x surrounded by chevrons/double x

framed by horizontal stripes on neck and in area of maximum vessel diameter). Cf. publication description: . Cup

rim and body. D. of rim c. 0.015 m. Pale orange clay; dull black glaze sic

flaking. Reserved band inside lip. Metope in handle zone: St. Andrews cross with chevrons. Nipple to left. For the decoration cf. BSA xxxi (1930-1) 66 fig. x.

19. Large cups with nipples were invented in Attic EG (Kerameikos v. I pl. 105

no. 261; GGP pl. 2c)

but die out there after EG. Subsequently the idea was adopted in the Argolid (Courbin

CGA 252 pl. 71

C 35)

in the Cyclades (GGP 170 pl. 34h) and in Crete. For other Knossian examples see Fortetsa I88; the earliest there (pl. 39

no. 611; GCP pl. 53b) is MG. and old catalogue description: Cup fragment: profile rim to lower body including nipple on shoulder. Flaking black paint

metopal decoration.

Specimen Count

1

Preservation State

Fragment

Collection Date From

1951

Department

Knossos

Collection

Stratigraphical Museum

Other IDs

1427

EMu IRN

165666