English: object type / vase shape: Chiot East Greek lekane / bowl with basket-like handles, 2 fully plastic female heads on the rim, 4 female heads in high relief at the junctions of the handles

- decoration technique: outline-drawing in dark paint with added dark red on white slip - description interior: animal frieze with 2 lions, 2 geese, 2 dogs attacking a boar, sphinx; inscription (incised after firing): SO_STRATOS MANETHE_KEN TE_PHRODITE_I (Sostratos dedicated me to Aphrodite) - exterior: grazing wild goats - production place: Chios - painter / group: Group of the Aphrodite bowl - period / date: middle wild goat style II, ca. 625-600 BC - height (including handles): 17,8 cm; diameter: 38,8 cm - material: pottery (clay) - findspot: Naukratis, sanctuary of Aphrodite - museum / inventory number: London BM 1888,0601.456 - bibliography: Anna A. Lemos, Archaic Pottery of Chios, Oxford 1991, cat. 252 - John Boardman, Early Greek Vase Painting: 11th-6th Centuries BC, London 1998, fig. 311 - https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1888-0601-456

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