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Top view of stem of knob of lid. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College) -
Profile view of stem of knob of lid. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Attic Black Glaze Lekanis Fragment
Monograph 10: The Corinthian, Attic, and Lakonian Pottery from Sardis
(1997)
Cat. Att 168
- Date
- Ca. 450-400 BC, Late Lydian (Persian)
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P96.065
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Lekanis
- Pottery Ware
- Attic Black Glaze
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W5.00 - W10.00 / S95.00 - S100.00 *99.80 - 99.50
- Findspot
- found in 1961
- Description
- Stem of knob of lid. Vertical stem, sawed off and smoothed, and part of the lid. Abrasion or saw marks clearly visible. Very fine black glaze. Possibly prepared for a secondary purpose, such as a stopper or a game piece. However, it may have had a second piece placed over it, as Agora XII, 329, no. 1318, pl. 43; or, more likely, it was a stem for a more elaborate knob (cf. ibid., 324, no. 1255, pl. 42) which broke and was smoothed off. Dated by analogy with probable lekanis lids.
- Dimensions
- P.H. 0.014; diam. of knob 0.014; Th. of lid 0.005.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- NHR