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    Profile view of lower part of vessel. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Lower Portion of an Attic Black-Figure Lekythos

Date
500-475 BC, Late Lydian (Persian)
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P84.041
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Lekythos
Pottery Ware
Attic Black Figure
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
MMS
Trench
MMS-I 84.1
Locus
MMS-I 84.1 Locus 17
B-Grid Coordinates
E149.5 - E151 / S66.5 - S70 *101.43 - 100.24
Findspot
pit; found near Att. 27
Description
Foot and base of a black-figured lekythos. Disk-shaped foot, flat resting surface. Reserved: resting surface and outside edge of foot; also a band on lower body. Trace of the beginning of a panel, perhaps showing a foot. Glaze is thinly applied and streaky.
Dimensions
P.H. 0.046; diam. of foot 0.03.
Comments
See Also
Bibliography
Author
NHR