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

Attic Black-Figure Lekythos Fragment

Date
Ca. 540 BC, Late Lydian (Persian)
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P59.385A
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Lekythos
Pottery Ware
Attic Black Figure
Pottery Attribution
Group E (?)
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
B-Grid Coordinates
W10 - W15 / S55 - S60 *99.9 - 99.4
Description
Fragment of wall. Rump and tail of a donkey at left, facing left; at right, buttock and upper leg of a man, facing right. Interior ribbed horizontally, unglazed.
Dimensions
P.H. 0.021; P.W. 0.032; Th. 0.003--0.005.
Comments
See Also
Bibliography
Beazley (by letter to G. M. A. Hanfmann, May 1960) believed that the piece was near Lydos. Perhaps from a Dionysiac scene, cf. Tiverios, pls. 54, 55.
Author
NHR