Assembled from four joining pieces and a handle. Made from grey clay covered with a white slip. Painted with wavy lines and filled-in loops.

Cups of this shape, with a small foot and wide body, were made in mainland Greece as well as the Aegean islands. A considerable number of such cups have been excavated at Phylakopi, many of them painted with similar decoration of wavy lines. Unusually, only one side of this cup is painted.

Provenance

Excavated at Phylakopi, Melos, c. 1899; Thomas Dinham Atkinson (1864–1948), by whom bequeathed to Winchester College in 1948.