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    Overview of wall fragment. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Attic Black-Figure Lekythos Fragment

Date
late 6th or early 5th C. BC, Late Lydian (Persian)
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P61.230
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Lekythos
Pottery Ware
Attic Black Figure
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
PN
Trench
PN
B-Grid Coordinates
W255 / S370 to ca. *89.25
Description
Wall fragment. Apparently a banquet scene with table and draped reclining man. Traces of horizontal and vertical strokes of white paint.
Dimensions
P.H. 0.038; P.W. 0.025; Th. 0.003--0.004.
Comments
Cf. ABL 93 for date. For complete scenes, of which this seems to be a fragment, cf. the Gela Painter, Athens NM 541 (ABL pl. 23:2a and b; ABFV no. 235.1 and 2); the Painter of Athens 581, ABL pl. 31:5. On the Gela Painter, ABV 473-75. On the Class of Athens 581, ABV 487-506.
See Also
Bibliography
Author
NHR