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

Attic Black-Figure Lekythos Fragment

Date
Ca. 500 BC, Late Lydian (Persian)
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P62.307
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Lekythos
Pottery Ware
Attic Black Figure
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
PN
Trench
PN
B-Grid Coordinates
*87.8
Findspot
"Persian West" *87.80. (For more on the findspot, Pl. 3 and "The Lakonian Pottery," 134 and n. 9.)
Description
Shoulder fragment. Palmette and part of spiral tendril; a second tendril from near the base of the neck and a trace of a tongue.
Dimensions
P.H. 0.029; P.W. 0.016; Th. 0.002.
Comments
Cf. ABL pl. 27 for date. See also Kurtz, Lekytho fig. 7:c.
See Also
Bibliography
Author
NHR