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Profile view of rim and upper body. (©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 20
- Date
- Ca. 510-490 BC, Late Lydian (Persian)
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P62.262
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Olpe
- Pottery Ware
- Attic Black Figure
- Pottery Attribution
- Dot-ivy Class
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- PN
- Trench
- PN
- B-Grid Coordinates
- *88.2 - 88
- Findspot
- PN "Persian West" *88.20. (For more on the findspot, Pl. 3 and "The Lakonian Pottery," 134 and n. 9.)
- Description
- Rounded rim and upper body. Panel on neck bordered at the top by a double net pattern within two horizontal lines. Bearded Dionysus faces left. On his shoulder are two white dots. Andrew J. Clark (by letter) has attributed this piece to the Painter of Brussels R236 or the Painter of Würzburg 351.
- Dimensions
- P.H. 0.055; diam. of rim 0.06.
- Comments
- Cf. fragmentary unpublished Dot-ivy Class olpe in Prague, attributed to the Painter of Brussels R236 (Paralipomena 188, 6 ter.). I am grateful to A. J. Clark for his advice on this piece.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- NHR