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JOHN BOARDMAN

THE EARLY GREEK SHERD AT NINEVEH

The Assyrian site of Nineveh on the Tigris

has fallen on and off lists and maps of finds

of early Greek pottery (e.g., J. Boardman,

OJA 9 (1990) 174, fig. 1) through uncertainty

about the identity of a piece mentioned in the

report of 1929, ‘one proto-Geometric sherd’

(R. Campbell Thompson and R.W. Hamilton,

Archaeologia 79 (1929) 138). The few pieces

of Greek pottery from the excavation of the

area of the temple of Nabu had been

inspected by Mr Forsdyke and Professor

Beazley. The general assumption, no more

than a guess which, being repeated, became a

fact, that the fragment was from a pendent-

semicircle skyphos is in fact correct. Andres

Reyes indicated to me its present location in

Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery

(not London, as generally assumed) and I am

indebted to Dr Philip Watson for permission

to see and photograph it (Figure). Its greatest

width is 4.4 cm, diameter not easily deter-

mined but clearly a relatively large specimen.

The clay is a clean pinkish-orange, within the

Euboean range as known to me. The paint is

brown, rather streaky within, where there is a

thin reserved stripe in the rim, and thinned

for the semicircles. The rim is slightly

concave and high for the class, which places

it relatively early in the Sub-Protogeometric

series (V.R.d’A. Desborough in Lefkandi I

(ed. M.R. Popham, 1980) 300). The class is

well represented in the plentiful finds of

Euboean pottery at Al Mina at the mouth of

the River Orontes, 400 miles west of Nine-

veh, and on nearby Syrian sites ( OJA 9

(1990) 169–90). Distribution thins north and

south and this is the furthest flung example to

the east.

Figure 1

Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery 1989.A.343.

Cup fragment from Nineveh

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