ΧαZρε καi πlει εV (AVI 2)

Abstract Between about 560 and 525 bc (i.e. in the Peisistratan era), many Athenian potters and painters produced a particular type of wine-cup, usually called the ‘little-master cup’ (Beazley 1932). Most of these are ‘lip-cups’. Some bear no figured decoration (‘plain’ cups),1many have figured decoration on the lip (Ext.: A, B) and a plain interior (Int.),2or a plain lip and inside a figure-decorated tondo, or, rarely, there is figured decoration inside and out. In a closely related type of cup, in which the lip is less clearly marked o• from the bowl and painted black, the handle zone is often decorated, mostly with several to many figures, the interior rarely (‘band-cups’).