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Some Unpublished Sherds from Naucratis in Dublin
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 September 2015
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During the early years of this century University College, Dublin, acquired a sizeable collection of classical antiquities, largely through the efforts of the professor of Greek, the Rev. Henry Browne, SJ. Among the acquisitions he made for the College were a group of sherds from the excavations at Naucratis conducted by Sir Flinders Petrie and D. G. Hogarth which he obtained from the British Museum and the Ashmolean (but mostly the latter). As a result of their isolation in Dublin these sherds have not figured in the various publications dealing with material from Naucratis that have appeared over the years, but it is still perhaps not too late to draw attention to them, especially as they include some interesting pieces.
There is no record of exactly when the Naucratis sherds went to Dublin or of what was given in exchange for them, but they must have arrived before 1913 for they are mentioned in a Report on the University College Museum published in that year. The following account is arranged according to styles.
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My thanks are due to Mrs B. Bowen, Mrs A. Brown, Mr A. Johnston and Dr R. Schlüter for assistance in the preparation of this article. Mr John Boardman and Professor R. M. Cook were kind enough to read it through in draft form and made valuable suggestions. Mr J. Bambury took the photographs. Measurements are in centimetres, and the fragments are reproduced at half actual size.
1 A letter to D. G. Hogarth at the Ashmolean dated October 27, 1910, gives an idea of how Fr Browne went about building up the collection: ‘You will remember promising to let me have some typical fragments of Minoan pottery and some other specimens for our new teaching museum, if I could succeed in getting some Irish specimens for your own Museum.’
2 For a bibliography see JHS lvii (1937) 227–8. CVA British Museum 8 and Heidelberg 3 contain Naucratis pottery. Other relevant publications are referred to below.
3 For a detailed bibliography of bird-bowls see L. Pandolfi in Stucchi, S., L'Agorà di Cirene i (Rome 1965) 39–40Google Scholar, but for a clear analysis see now Coldstream, J. N., Greek Geometric Pottery (London 1968) 298–301.Google Scholar
4 Cf. Cook, R. M.'s remarks in JHS lvii (1937) 228.Google Scholar
5 CVA Oxford 2(9) IId, pl. 1(392) 13.
6 JHS xliv (1924) 200.
7 Langlotz, E., Griechische Vasen in Würzburg pls. 13 and 14.Google Scholar
8 JHS xliv (1924) 216–17; for the Aphrodite bowl see Gardner, E. A., Naukratis ii (1888) pl. vi.Google Scholar
9 BSA xliv (1949) 155.
10 Boardman, J., Excavations in Chios 1952–1955, Greek Emporio (London 1967) 166–8 and pls. 62–63.Google Scholar
11 For the shape see Boardman, J., The Greeks Overseas 140, fig. 36.Google Scholar
12 BSA xlvii (1952) 159–170.
13 BSA li (1956) 55–62.
14 ibid. 56 n. 5.
15 BSA xlvii (1952) 163.
16 BSA li (1956) 60.
17 Using Cook, R. M.'s classification, Gnomon xxxvii (1965) 506.Google Scholar
18 Cf. Ch. Kardara, 
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19 Cf. the column-krater from Çandirli, , Arch. Reports for 1964–65 36, fig. 5.Google Scholar
20 Kardara, op. cit., 233, fig. 193 (and, of course sherd no. 10 below).
21 See note 19 above.
22 Tocra i 41.
23 ibid. 64.
24 Quaderni di Archeologia della Libia v (1967) 19–20, figs 1 and 2, also illustrated in Stucchi, , Cirene 1957–1965 (Tripoli 1967) 149, fig. 153.Google Scholar
25 BSA lxiii (1968) 41–42.
26 Cf. Kardara, op. cit., 233, fig. 193, JHS xliv (1924) pl. viii 1, and MonAnt xxxii (1927) pl. lxxxi, 5.
27 For a full bibliography to 1966 see Laubscher, H. P., AA 1966, 488 n. 1, and 490 nn. 10 and 11Google Scholar. In addition see now Dimitriu, S., Histria ii 47–48, 92–95. pls. 23–27.Google Scholar
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29 ibid. 5–8, pl. 3b. This sherd is in fact already published in BSA v (1898–9) pl. vi 11 ( = Cook's Lion Group, BI, No. 5).
30 ibid. 61.
31 ibid. 42, pl. 14c.
32 ibid. 15–16, pls. 5, 6 and 1 1c.
33 Necrocorinthia 187.
34 ibid. pl. 41.4 (but with red slip). For the animal, cf. the ‘oiseau’, Megara Hyblaea ii 67, pl. 55.9. Professor R. M. Cook suggests it might be a swan.
35 ibid. 156.
36 E.g., Gräf and Langlotz, Akropolisvasen pl. 98, 2400, 2405; AM xv (1890) pl. 12.2; one handle of the François Vase (Arias-Hirmer-Shefton, pl. 40, r. and pl. 41, 1.); Richter-Milne, Shapes and Names fig. 153; CVA Louvre 1(1) IIIHd, pl. 1 (31) 5 and 11; CVA British Museum 8 (13) pl. 100 (608), 25–27.
37 CVA Munich 1(3) pl. 25(119).
38 ABV 140.
39 Already published in BSA v (1898–9) 63, pl. viii 11.
40 ARV 2 818, nos. 16–21.
41 CVA Frankfurt 2(30) pl. 63(1454) 1–5.
42 For the subject cf. CVA Oxford 1(3) pl. 43(135) 2 and pl. 39(131) 3–4.
43 E.g., RAV 2 1253, nos. 57–72.
44 ibid. 1335–6.
45 CVA Bonn 1 (1) pl. 19(19) 4.
46 Best illustrated in Arias-Hirmer-Shefton, pls. 218–19. For a discussion of the subject of the Dublin sherd, see Metzger, H., Recherches sur l'imagerie athénienne (Paris 1965) 77–91Google Scholar, pls. xxix–xxxix, and especially pp. 79–81 (herms on late fifth century vases).
47 Attribution by Mr Shefton.
48 Appears in JHS xxv (1905) 116, fig. 2, no. 25, but ignored in the text p. 117.
49 xvi 93.