Currently not on view
Black-glazed cup with incised inscription,
6th century BCE
Greek, Boeotian
2002-155
Information
Title
Black-glazed cup with incised inscription
Dates
6th century BCE
Medium
Ceramic
Dimensions
7.2 x 20.9 cm, diam. 14.2 cm (2 13/16 x 8 1/4 x 5 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift in Memory of Emily Townsend Vermeule, Honorary Degree Holder of the Class of 1989
Object Number
2002-155
Place Made
Boeotia
Inscription
Incised inscriptions on either side: "I am [the cup of] Tyres the lecher, lovely cup, sweet in the drink.";
Culture
Period
Subject
Formerly in the collection of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, acquired from an unknown source by at least 1984; given to the Museum in 2002 by an anonymous donor in honor of Emily Towsend Vermeule, Honorary Degree Holder of the Class of 1989.
- Emily T. Vermeule, "Tyres the Lecher?," in eds. Alan L. Boegehold, et. al., Studies presented to Sterling Dow on his eightieth birthday, (Durham, NC: Duke University, 1984): p. 301-304., p. 301-304; pl. 20.
- "Acquisitions of the Princeton University Art Museum 2002," Record of the Princeton University Art Museum 62 (2003): p. 107-161., p. 137
- Don C. Skemer, The Greek book from papyrus to printing: an exhibition at the Harvey S. Firestone Memorial Library, Princeton University, 8 September-7 December 2008, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Library, 2008)., p. 3 (illus.)
