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    Overview of wall fragment. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Attic Black-Figure Olpe Fragment

Date
Ca. 500 BC, Late Lydian (Persian)
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P63.283
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Olpe
Pottery Ware
Attic Black Figure
Pottery Attribution
Leagros Group
Site
Sardis
Sector
PN
Trench
PN
B-Grid Coordinates
W235 - W239 / S341 - S345 to *88.15
Findspot
in fill above Persian level
Description
Fragment of upper body. Leto or Artemis and Apollo with kithara, partially preserved. Forehead and nose of Apollo at left of fragment and outstretched fingers of his left hand can be seen behind the strings of the kithara. White paint used for the face, neck, and arm of the goddess; for three dots on her himation; and for part of the kithara. Added purple for her eye, her fillet, a dot on the himation, for Apollo's fillet, and for a crossbar of the kithara. Border patterns: horizontal---zigzag with dots between double lines; vertical---double row of dots placed between double lines. Attributed by D. von Bothmer (personal communication) to the Leagros Group.
Dimensions
P.H. 0.095; P.W. 0.075; Th. 0.004.
Comments
See Also
Bibliography
For parts of kithara, see J. D. Beazley, "Citharoedus," JHS 42 (1922) 72--74; L. D. Caskey and J. D. Beazley, Attic Vase Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston I (Oxford 1931), 20. For Leagros Group, ABV 354--91 and Development 74--80.
Author
NHR