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Droop Cups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2015

P. N. Ure
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In JHS. xlix, 270, Beazley and Payne, in their article on Attic black-figured fragments from Naukratis in the British Museum, publish for the first time fragments of two cups that belong to a well-marked group of black-rimmed kylikes that was first studied by Droop some twenty years ago (JHS. xxx, 21 ff.). These cups can at once be distinguished from the ordinary black-rimmed Little Master kylix by the following peculiarities:

The upper part of the stem is reserved and generally channelled.

The edge of the foot is convex and black, not, as in normal Little Master cups, whether red or black of rim, straight in section and reserved.

The hollow cone that runs from the base some way up the stem has a black band: in normal Little Master cups this cone is entirely reserved.

Inside the bowl there is a thin reserved band, not, as in normal Little Master cups, right at the top of the rim, but some way down it.

Whereas the normal Little Master cup, whether red-rimmed or black-rimmed, has the lower part of the body black with one reserved band, this treatment is exceptional in the Droop cups, which often shew a great variety of ornamental zones on this part of the vase; of these the most distinctive is a zone of inverted birds or animals, generally in pure silhouette.

The inside of the bowl is decorated with only a small reserved medallion with sometimes a central dot and circle or two, or else is entirely black.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 52 , Issue 1 , 1932 , pp. 55 - 71
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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1932

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1 No. 2, however, of their list is probably the foot of no. 17 (see below under my no. 49). No. 3 is identical with no. 8 (see below my no. 9); no. 18 (my no. 123) is not pure Droop; on the other hand, the Weber cup mentioned just after the list as connected with the series seems from the illustration of it in Sotheby's sale catalogue to be a normal example and is listed below as no. 87. On connected vases see the end of this paper.

2 It is a great pleasure to acknowledge the help I have received in collecting this material. For photographs and information about vases I am much indebted to the directors of the museums at Athens, Bonn, Boulogne, Copenhagen, The Hague, Munich, Naples, New York, Syracuse, Toronto, and the Vatican; to the German Archaeological Institute who most kindly provided me with prints of the photographs of the Acropolis sherds (Photos 17–20 of Graef's Antike Vasen der Akropolis zu Athen); to Dr. D. Levi, who did much to facilitate my work in Florence and Chiusi; to Mr. M. P. Vlasto for photographs, drawings and full information about the plate in his collection, below no. 125, figs. 11,12; to Mr. Pottier for much kind help and for permission to publish the vase from the French excavations at Elaeus; and to Mr. Merlin, who unearthed and had photographed for me the fragments that are now transferred from the Musée Guimet to the Louvre. A special acknowledgment is due to Professor Beazley, who with his customary generosity put his knowledge at my disposal. He drew my attention to nos. 82, 92, 93, 122 and 125, and I owe entirely to notes made recently by him in Italy my accounts of nos. 4, 14–16, 27, 33, 53, 57–60, 69, 74, 100, 114.

3 As figured by Droop (cp. also B.P. p. 270) this vase has a normal Little Master foot. When, however, I examined the vase in 1914 I noted that the foot had been repaired in modern times and was possibly alien. This observation is now confirmed by Prof. Sieveking and Dr. Diepolder, who report that the base and lower part of the stem are certainly alien, the latter being somewhat greater in diameter than the upper part of the stem, which belongs to the vase and has never been broken off. The absence of a reserved line part-way down the rim may perhaps be explained by the fact that the inside of the bowl has been painted over.

4 For the photograph of this vase and for information about it I am indebted to the great kindness of Dr. P. Mingazzini. When I saw it in the museum at Naples it had an alien (Little Master) foot which has since been removed.

5 Found at Ialysos in a single interment grave (CCXX) with an early sixth-century B.F. amphora, two mid-sixth century kylikes, and a small floral B.F. kylix which to judge from the illustration might be dated anywhere in the second half of the sixth century.

6 The Little Master foot with which this cup is at present provided is ‘inserted into the bottom of the bowl and plastered round. It is unlikely that it belongs to the bowl’ (Dr. H. Diepolder, confirming observations of my own).

7 The existing foot (wrongly described in B.P. as Little Master) is alien; there is little doubt that we should transfer here the foot at present attached to the Taleides cup, Albizzati, pl. 35. 321. The contours of the join between foot and body in the Taleides cup approximate very closely to those of the plaster filling between bowl and existing foot on this vase.

8 Beazley, ‘hares, etc.’; my own notes of 1914, ‘very badly drawn cocks.’ Both creatures are quite appropriate. I have been unable to obtain any additional information (on these or any other of our vases) from Taranto.

9 The other contents were a B.F. amphora (figs. ( 263–4), a Fikellura amphora (fig. 266), and a ring (fig. 267).

10 The vase has now been published in the Catalogue of the Greek Vases at Toronto by Robinson, , Harcum, and Iliffe, , pp. 102–4 Pl. XXIXGoogle Scholar.

11 I owe this number to a photograph sent to Professor Beazley by Miss Haspels.

12 The striking related vase no. 123, which displays a quite different shape of foot, has round the upper part of the stem another form of decoration which is common nowhere (cp. Furtwängler on the Attic cup, Berlin 1800), but may be paralleled on the Laconian cup in Munich, Sieveking and Hackl, fig. 48.

13 Ἐφημ. 1915, p. 122.

14 JHS. xxx, p. 21.

15 Artemis Orthia, p. 96.

16 Ibid. p. 101.

17 Ibid. p. 96.