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Overview of joined body and rim fragments. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Attic Red Figure Cup Fragments
- Date
- late 6th C. BC, Late Lydian (Persian)
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P61.379
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Cup
- Pottery Ware
- Attic Red Figure
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W5 - W6 / S85 - S87 ca. *99 - 98.50
- Findspot
- A: HoB W 5.00--6.00/S 85.00--87.00 ca. *99.00--*98.50. B: HoB W 4.00/S 86.00 *99.20; found with
Att 114 .
- Description
MANISA. Oltos (?). Body and rim fragments, joined. A: from near the handle. Exterior: a nine-petalled palmette, each petal separate and divided down the middle by a central rib. The black heart of the palmette has a reserved circle at its center and springs from a pair of spirals. B: at rim, a spiralled tendril encircles the palmette. All petals and spirals bordered by an incised line. Finest black glaze. Narrow reserved band at rim. Interior: black glaze, rim reserved.
The use of a central line in the petals of the palmette was begun by the Euergides Painter and is not the earliest type of red-figure palmette. It is used by Oltos and Epiktetos as well. The quality is superb and merits attribution to one of the great early red-figure painters, perhaps Oltos himself.
- Dimensions
- A: P.H. 0.05; P.W. 0.045; Th. 0.003. B: P.H. 0.03; P.W. 0.039; Th. 0.003.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Published: BASOR 166 (1962) 10, n. 20. For a palmette of this type, see P. Jacobsthal, Ornamente griechischer Vasen (Berlin 1927) pl. 91:a; M. Robertson, The Art of Vase-Painting in Classical Athens (Cambridge 1992) 17, fig. 12.
- Author
- NHR