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Attic Black-Figure Lekythos Fragment

Date
470-450 BC, Late Lydian (Persian)
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P61.103
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Lekythos
Pottery Ware
Attic Black Figure
Pottery Attribution
Beldam Painter (?)
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
B-Grid Coordinates
E5 / S90 to *99.4
Description
Upper body fragment of a white-ground pattern lekythos. Horizontal bands below the shoulder; checker pattern of black and white rectangles in three rows. Below is a stemmed fruit cluster of ivy berries and an ivy wreath.
Dimensions
P.H. 0.054; P.W. 0.033; Th. 0.004--0.007.
Comments
For similar patterns by the Beldam Painter, see ABL 171, 181--82, 187, pl. 50:4; ABV 586--87; ABFV 149--50, no. 280. Cf. also Kurtz, Lekythoi pl. 70.
See Also
Bibliography
Author
NHR