• m10-att-178-10
    Overview of fragment. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
  • m10-att-178-20
    Drawing. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Attic Black Glaze Band Cup Fragment

Monograph 10: The Corinthian, Attic, and Lakonian Pottery from Sardis (1997) Cat. Att 178
Date
Ca. 550 BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P62.330
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery, Graffito
Pottery Shape
Band Cup
Pottery Ware
Attic Black Glaze
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
PN
Trench
PN
B-Grid Coordinates
*87.4
Findspot
"Persian East"; (For more on the findspot, Pl. 3 and "The Lakonian Pottery," 134 and n. 9.)
Description
Fragment of body. Lydian graffito incised in band ]ursisbil [, translated by R. Gusmani as "X, (son) of Y, the (priest?), dedicated (?) . . . ." Its Attic manufacture has been confirmed by chemical analysis (Appendix 2, sample AP 18b).
Dimensions
P.H. 0.043; P.W. 0.04; Th. 0.002.
Comments
Cf. Agora XII, 90, 262. Supra, "Imports and Trade Relations," 000 and "Graffiti and Dipinti," 000.
See Also
Bibliography
Published: Gusmani, 71--76 (Lydian inscription no. 99). For shape and decoration.
Author
NHR

Related Artifacts