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Attic Merrythought Cup No. 104: Battle over fallen warrior (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College) -
Attic Merrythought Cup No. 104: Battle over fallen warrior (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College) -
Attic black-figure Merrythought cup. Hunt for the Calydonian Boar (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College) -
Attic black-figure Merrythought cup. Hunt for the Calydonian Boar (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College) -
Attic black-figure Merrythought cup. Interior (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College) -
Attic Black-Figure "Merrythought" cup, profile view (drawing). (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College) -
Attic Black-Figure "Merrythought" cup, warriors (drawing). (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College) -
Attic Black-Figure "Merrythought" cup, hunting scene (drawing). (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College) -
Attic Black-Figure "Merrythought" cup, handle (drawing). (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College) -
Attic Black-Figure "Merrythought" cup, tondo (drawing). (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Attic Black Figure Merrythought Cup
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 104
- Date
- Ca. mid-6th c BC, Lydian
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 2137
- Museum Inventory No.
- 2137
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P60.599
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery, Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Varia
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Pottery Shape
- Merrythought Cup
- Pottery Ware
- Attic Black Figure
- Pottery Attribution
- Painter of the Sardis Merrythought Cup
- Inscription Text
ΧΑΙΡΕ ΚΑΙ Π[ΙΕ Η]ΥΣ
- Inscription Translation
- “Drink and be merry”; “Boar”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- AC
- Trench
- AcT
- B-Grid Coordinates
- ca. *402.1
- Description
- Attic black figure cup with deep bowl, high “wishbone” handles. Side A: battle over a fallen warrior, with two nude figures bearing away the corpse; Ramage suggests that the nude figures might represent Sleep and Death, rather than mortal combatants. At the right, a separate battle between two warriors, one of whom wears a horned helmet. Side B: the hunt for the Calydonian boar. Two hunters attack the boar from the left, and three hunters, including a woman (Atalanta, kneeling), attack from the right. A dog savages the boar’s back. Above, painted inscriptions read “Drink, and be merry!” (above the boar, on the left) and “Boar” (on the right). Interior: a running youth or warrior. The inscription surrounding him has been interpreted as a garbled potter’s signature. Mended from fragments; foot missing, restored. Attributed to the Painter of the Sardis Merrythought Cup (Ramage).
- Comments
- From the Acropolis, AcT trench A. The Merrythought cup, with its high, wishbone-like handles, is a rare shape in Athenian pottery; this is one of the finest examples known.
- See Also
- See also: M10 Cat. Att 54
- Bibliography
- Ramage 1983; Hanfmann and Mierse 1983, fig. 77; Schaeffer et al. 1997, Att. 54; Dedeoğlu 2003, 69, fig.
- Author
- NDC