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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 10
- Date
- 525-500 BC, Lydian or Late Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P66.016
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Amphora
- Pottery Ware
- Attic Black Figure
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W0 - W6 / S86 - S90 *98.03 - 97.8
- Description
- Wall fragment of an amphora (?). Robe of a figure, Dionysus (?), seated on a folding stool. An incised circle, with a white painted circle (flaked off) within it, indicates the joint at the top of the diagonal leg of the stool. The curved line of the buttock is preserved at the left. The robe of the seated figure has folds radiating from the knee with purple highlights in the folds and four-dot rosettes (also in white, flaked off).
- Dimensions
- P.H. 0.045; P.W. 0.04; Th. 0.002--0.004.
- Comments
- Cf. CVA New York MMA 4, pl. 33, no. 1 for a similar scene.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- NHR