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Overview of wall fragment. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Attic Black-Figure Olpe Fragment
Monograph 10: The Corinthian, Attic, and Lakonian Pottery from Sardis
(1997)
Cat. Att 19
- 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