Pottery: red-figured covered kantharos, with closed-in top, at one side of which is an aperture 3.2 cm long by 1.9 cm, communicating with the centre of the bottom by means of a shaft walled off from the interior. The lid is painted black and decorated with concentric mouldings: in its centre is a moulded Gorgon mask (3.2 cm diameter) painted white with black hair and red tongue. (a) Odysseus and Nausicaa. On the left Odysseus, nude, with rough hair and beard, stands as if in astonishment, holding a long beaded fillet (the credemnon) in both hands: he gazes at Nausicaa, who sinks away on the right, looking back at him; she wears a Doric chiton with apoptygma, and her hair is knotted behind with a fillet wound thrice round it. Beside Odysseus is inscribed his name, ΟΔΥΣΕΥΣ, Όδυσεύς. Beside Nausicaa, KAΛΕ, καλή. (b) Oedipus and the Sphinx. On a high rock on the left, drawn in purple outline, the Sphinx is seated to right, her long hair knotted behind with a fillet, which has a vertical piece over the forehead: her fore and hind legs join on to her body like the arms and legs of a woman. In front of her stands Oedipus, beardless, en face, but looking towards her, his left hand on his hip, his right holding two spears: he wears a chlamys, fillet, a petasos hanging at his back, and high endromides. Purple inscriptions, fillet, belt, and rock. Brown markings. Eye in profile. --The British Museum, Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893; Walters, H B, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 5, British Museum 4, London, BMP, 1929
Attic Black Figure pottery lip cup with added plaster and one handle restored; interior: reserved band around top of rim and glazed black below; reserved tondo with small black central circle (marked with small pits, which were part of ancient repair); exterior: narrow black band around rim and below offset of lip; handle black, reserved on inside; on lip between handles (sides A and B), black figure decoration consisting of Odysseus (added red hair and beard; head, neck, shoulder, buttocks with incised arc, legs from below knee and feet protruding) bound by two cords under ram (faded added white horn, red neck, and red mark on haunch), to left; lower part of bowl glazed black with reserved band; stem and foot glazed black; concave edge and underside of foot reserved; several ancient repair holes (3 on lowest part of bowl, 1 through centre of tondo, 4 at top of stem). --The British Museum, Villing, Alexandra, Naukratis: Greeks in Egypt, London, BM, 2012; Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893; Smith, A H; Pryce, F N, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 2, British Museum 2, London, BMP, 1926; Möller, Astrid, Naukratis, Trade in Archaic Greece, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2000; Venit, M.S., Painted Pottery from the Greek Mainland found in Egypt, 640-450 BC, PhD New York University, UMI, 1982