Attic Black-Figure Eye Cup Fragments
Most of the handles, much of the bowl, and the stem and foot of this cup are missing and restored.
Reserved line on the inside of the lip; the edge itself is glazed and enhanced with a red line.
Interior: black, with a ribbon pattern around the missing tondo (very likely a gorgoneion).
Exterior: A: Herakles and Hermes side by side, between frontal eyes. Herakles moves to right, wearing a lionskin and holding his club. Very little remains of Hermes. One booted foot is just visible.
Exterior: B; Herakles lifting a satyr, between frontal eyes. Herakles bends to right. He holds his club in his right hand and a quiver is visible on the left side of his body. On his shoulders, he carries a white-haired satyr, who sings and plays a barbitos.
The two pairs of black eyes are identical (red central disc, and five oculus rings: red-glazed-white-glazed-yellowish-white). In the field surrounding the figures: dotted vines with small clusters of grapes.
Under each handle grows the intertwined trunk of a grapevine whose leafy boughs (with clusters of grapes) extend above and below the adjacent eyes.
Below the figured zone, three thin glaze lines, a glaze line, three more thin glaze lines, a zone of forty-nine rays, alternately black and outline, a glaze band and a thin glaze band encircling the fillet.
Reserved line on the inside of the lip; the edge itself is glazed and enhanced with a red line.
Interior: black, with a ribbon pattern around the missing tondo (very likely a gorgoneion).
Exterior: A: Herakles and Hermes side by side, between frontal eyes. Herakles moves to right, wearing a lionskin and holding his club. Very little remains of Hermes. One booted foot is just visible.
Exterior: B; Herakles lifting a satyr, between frontal eyes. Herakles bends to right. He holds his club in his right hand and a quiver is visible on the left side of his body. On his shoulders, he carries a white-haired satyr, who sings and plays a barbitos.
The two pairs of black eyes are identical (red central disc, and five oculus rings: red-glazed-white-glazed-yellowish-white). In the field surrounding the figures: dotted vines with small clusters of grapes.
Under each handle grows the intertwined trunk of a grapevine whose leafy boughs (with clusters of grapes) extend above and below the adjacent eyes.
Below the figured zone, three thin glaze lines, a glaze line, three more thin glaze lines, a zone of forty-nine rays, alternately black and outline, a glaze band and a thin glaze band encircling the fillet.
Images courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (CC0)