301081, ATHENIAN, Oxford, Ashmolean Museum

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Vase Number: 301081
Fabric: ATHENIAN
Technique: BLACK-FIGURE
Shape Name: CUP, LITTLE MASTER LIP, FRAGMENT
Provenance: EGYPT, NAUCRATIS
Date: -575 to -525
Inscriptions: Named: [PO]LYPOS[...
POLYPOUS
Attributed To: POLYPOUS by BEAZLEY
Decoration: OCTOPUS (NAMED)
Last Recorded Collection: Oxford, Ashmolean Museum
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 170
AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=6081
AVI Record Number: 5849
CAVI Collection: Oxford.
CAVI Lemma: Fr. of BF lip cup. From Naukratis. Unattributed. Polypous, potter (?). Third quarter sixth.
CAVI Subject: A: handle zone: at right, part of a polyp.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: handle zone: on the polyp's left: [Πο]λυπος{1}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} no doubt completed on the right.
CAVI Comments: The inscription is either a signature or a kalos-name (Beazley). A signature is more likely; cf. the aidoion vase with the signature of Priapos, ABV 170. polypus is the word for octopus; this `polyp' may have had 8 feet.
CAVI Number: 5849
AVI Bibliography: Photo. — Beazley (1950), 311. — ABV (1956), 170.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
Pleiades URI: https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/727169
Coordinates: 30.954058,30.522766
Pleiades Coordinates: 30.900508,30.5919275

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