Wine cup used by Pericles found north of Athens

[Creon01]

I asked about this with working archaeologist and they questioned why someone with such a high social stature would use a pottery cup in a social situation. They generally drank out of cups made from silver or bronze and to serve your social equals wine in a ceramic cup, when better cups were available, could be seen as insulting. The reason we have so much pottery is that it was not re-usable and was not considered valuable enough to loot. This often distorts our views of the "ancient table." That does not mean the cup is not ancient, only that it is questionable that the Athenian Statesman Pericles ever used such a cup in an important social occasion.