• m10-att-12-10
    Profile view of base. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
  • m10-att-12-20
    Drawing: profile. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Lower Portion of an Attic Black Figure Amphora

Monograph 10: The Corinthian, Attic, and Lakonian Pottery from Sardis (1997) Cat. Att 12
Date
late 6th C. BC, Late Lydian (Persian)
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P64.130
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Amphora
Pottery Ware
Attic Black Figure
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
PN
Trench
PN
B-Grid Coordinates
W250 - W253 / S345 - S351 *88.10 - 87.70
Description
Foot and lower body of a small amphora. Foot has rounded torus. Underside, unglazed, rises to a recessed bottom which has a nipple. A fillet at join of the wall and foot. Only a tiny blob of figured painting is preserved. Below this, a reserved band with purple horizontal line. Lower part of torus of foot is reserved. The whole has been burned, but the glaze remains fine.
Dimensions
P.H. 0.048; diam. of foot 0.055; Th. 0.0035.
Comments
See Also
Bibliography
Author
NHR

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