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

Attic Black-Figure Lekythos Fragment

Date
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P96.047
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Lekythos
Pottery Ware
Attic Black Figure
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
PN
Trench
PN
B-Grid Coordinates
W275.00 - W280.00 / S325.00 - S330.00 *87.20 - 86.70
Findspot
found in 1965
Description
Shoulder fragment of a small lekythos. Two up-and-down palmettes in silhouette and two tendrils, one between the flowers and another encircling the neck. Extra dot of glaze purposely placed between a tendril and a palmette. A fine and delicate piece.
Dimensions
P.H. 0.016; P.W. 0.02; Th. 0.003.
Comments
Cf. ABL pl. 15:4a and b, and detail, pls. 20--22. For second tendril, ABL pl. 27:3. See also Kurtz, Lekythoi fig. 9:b.
See Also
Bibliography
Author
NHR