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Overview of wall fragment. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Attic Black Figure Amphora Fragment
Monograph 10: The Corinthian, Attic, and Lakonian Pottery from Sardis
(1997)
Cat. Att 1
- Date
- 570-550 BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P82.010ab
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Amphora
- Pottery Ware
- Attic Black Figure
- Pottery Attribution
- Manner of Sophilos
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- MMS/S
- Trench
- MMS/S 82.1
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E97.8 - E100 / S114 - S115.5 *100.94
- Findspot
- A: MMS/S, lot 20, E 97.80/S 114.00 *100.94. B: MMS/S, lot 15, E 97.80/S 112.50 *101.50--*101.30.
- Description
- Wall fragment showing part of two bands of animals, probably the middle and lower animal friezes of an amphora. Upper band: hind leg of animal moving left and two legs of a bird siren moving right. Lower band: panther moving right. Added purple on its neck and incision for internal details. Two dilute lines for horizontal ground line between bands. May be a Tyrrhenian amphora. According to G. Bakır (personal communication) the date is no earlier than 570--560.
- Dimensions
- P.H. 0.055; P.W. 0.046; Th. 0.004.
- Comments
- Cf. Boston MFA 98.916, CVA Boston MFA 1, pl. 15; ABFV fig. 56, with the kind of bird siren that might have been on this pot. For Tyrrhenian amphorai more generally, see ABV 94--105; also CVA Munich 7, 22--24 (pl. 321) and passim.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Published: BASOR Suppl. 23 (1985) 78, attributed by G. Bakır.
- Author
- NHR