Cup With Moldmade Feet: Imitation Pergamene?

One foot, most of rim, and half of body restored.

Three moldmade feet: grinning satyr mask with bald head, full, curly beard, and bunches of grapes over ears. Two concentric circles on bottom: one inside feet, one on which feet arepositioned. Wide scraped groove at about mid-height (below decorated zone) and below rim, which is slightly inwardly thickened with top beveled to inside. Two pairs of large dolphins flank palmette with fronds curving towards center. Palmette is outlined in white and has white interior details. Between these groups are large palmettes with fronds curving outwards. Dolphins painted in silhouette, with interior details indicated by scraping away paint. Very micaceous, reddish yellow fabric (5YR 6/6); hard, lustrous red glaze (2.5YR 4/6--5/6), double-dipped, with black areas near rim.

For fabric and decoration cf. 1660, from same context.

Hübner (PF VII, p. 51) identifies the cup as an imitation of Pergamene appliqué, with the moldmade feet reflecting a Pergamene type (ibid., no. 35, p. 188, pl. 5); she suggests that it may have been manufactured in Asia Minor. Large-scale dolphins and palmettes occur on West Slope vessels at Pergamon (AvP I, ii, p. 273, Beiblatt 38:4; AvP IX, p. 120, pl. 57:h:7, 8, 10, 11, 57:i, 1; AvP XI, i, nos. 333, 428, pp. 151, 164, pls. 54, 59; PF II, D 39, p. 61, pl. 13). The combination of these two types of palmettes, in large scale, is found on Cretan West Slope vessels (Callaghan 1981a, no. 56, p. 55, figs. 4, 10; Belin de Ballu 1972, p. 114, pl. XLV) and Hadra hydriai (Guerrini 1964, B 25, p. 12, pl. III).