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Attic Black-Figure cup from Sardis: band skyphos No. 102. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College) -
Attic Black-Figure band skyphos (drawing). (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Attic Black Figure Band Skyphos
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 102
- Date
- Ca. mid-6th c BC, Lydian
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 6548
- Museum Inventory No.
- 6548
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P84.057
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Band Skyphos
- Pottery Ware
- Attic Black Figure
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- MMS
- Trench
- MMS-I 84.1
- Locus
- MMS-I 84.1 Locus 34
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E145.7 - E149 / S67.2 - S70 *100.46 - 100.43
- Description
- Attic black-figured band skyphos. Wide low flaring foot. Deep body, slightly inset, flaring lip with sharp transitional ridge on interior. Two horizontal handles. In band, side A: two neatly drawn confronting panthers, framed by palmettes. In band, side B: similar, but only lower portions of palmettes and panthers preserved. Reserved band on lower body. Mended from fragments, missing part of upper body on one side. Attributed to Group of Louvre CP10252 by J.T. Haldenstein. Height 0.096 m, diameter of rim 0.141 m.
- Comments
- From a Lydian house (Area 1, with 16, 62, 64, 65, 66, 68, 72, 73, 75, 81, 87, 88, 96, 97, 100, 103, 137, 138), together with another Attic black-figure cup, No. 103. These two complete and closely datable cups, this one not much earlier than the mid-sixth century, the other not much later, are among the best evidence for the date of the destruction of the houses, and hence of the fortification, which was destroyed at the same time, and the identification of this destruction level as the capture of Sardis by Cyrus of Persia (see Cahill, “The Persian Sack of Sardis”). Athenian pottery had begun to be imported to Sardis only about a generation before the cup was made.
- See Also
- Greenewalt, “Lydian Pottery”; Cahill, “City of Sardis”; Cahill, “Persian Sack”. See also: M10 Cat. Att 85
- Bibliography
- Ramage 1986; Greenewalt et al. 1988, 28, n. 17, fig. 13; Schaeffer et al. 1997, Att. 85; Dedeoğlu 2003, 30, fig.; Cahill and Kroll 2005, 599, no. 2, fig. 15b.
- Author
- NDC