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Overview of wall fragment. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Attic Black Figure Amphora Fragment
Monograph 10: The Corinthian, Attic, and Lakonian Pottery from Sardis
(1997)
Cat. Att 2
- Date
- Ca. 560 BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P77.030
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Amphora
- Pottery Ware
- Attic Black Figure
- Pottery Attribution
- Circle of Lydos
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- Nec
- Trench
- Tomb 76.1
- Locus
- Tomb 76.1 Sondage
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W21.49 / S582.81 *144.28 - 144.09
- Findspot
- Underneath Tomb 76.1; and not in a context related to the tomb.
- Description
- Wall fragment. A siren from a frieze which was below the widest circumference of the pot. Body and legs in black, wing in purple paint over black. Incisions for details. The legs of the siren rest on a ground line. A second horizontal band is barely preserved.
- Dimensions
- P.H. 0.042; P.W. 0.03; Th. 0.004.
- Comments
- Cf. also Development 40--41, pl. 35:2, 4.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Published: BASOR 233 (1979) 8--9 and n. 11, with discussion of context. For Lydan birds and sirens, Tiverios, pls. 6, 22, 23.
- Author
- NHR