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Overview of fragment. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College) -
Drawing. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Attic Red Figure Head Vase Fragment
Monograph 10: The Corinthian, Attic, and Lakonian Pottery from Sardis
(1997)
Cat. Att 115
- Date
- early 5th C. BC, Late Lydian (Persian)
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P62.212
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Head Vase
- Pottery Ware
- Attic Red Figure
- Pottery Attribution
- Group G (The London Class)
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- PN
- Trench
- PN
- B-Grid Coordinates
- *88.45
- Findspot
- "Persian West" (For more on the findspot, Pl. 3 and "The Lakonian Pottery," 134 and n. 9.)
- Description
- Fragment of head. A female head with three wavy strands of hair across her forehead and other strands falling vertically. Her hair is wrapped in a black sakkos, on which a crown of ivy is painted; it consists of a wavy brown line with heart-shaped leaves to either side. Part of her left eyebrow is preserved. Red paint (almost a luminescent orange-red) lies in hollows of the hair and at the join of hair to forehead. At top of black cloth, a reserved band. Above this the neck of the vase begins, also with black glaze. Interior of neck glazed.
- Dimensions
- P.H. 0.04; diam. of neck 0.08; Th. at forehead 0.002; Th. at side of hair 0.008.
- Comments
- Cf. Beazley, “Charinos,” JHS 49 (1929) 47--53, especially pl. V:I.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- NHR