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Overview of wall fragment. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College) -
Drawing. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Attic Black-Figure Lekythos Fragment
Monograph 10: The Corinthian, Attic, and Lakonian Pottery from Sardis
(1997)
Cat. Att 25
- Date
- early 5th C. BC, Late Lydian (Persian)
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P62.261
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Lekythos
- Pottery Ware
- Attic Black Figure
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- PN
- Trench
- PN
- B-Grid Coordinates
- *88.2 - 88
- Findspot
- “Persian West”; (For more on the findspot, Pl. 3 and "The Lakonian Pottery," 134 and n. 9.)
- Description
- Wall fragment. At left, the leg and tail of a satyr walking left. In the center, Dionysus seated on a diphros. In front of him at right, another figure, draped, or perhaps a staff and a foot walking right. Painting much worn.
- Dimensions
- P.H. 0.035; P.W. 0.047; Th. 0.005.
- Comments
- Cf. a departure scene of Whitworth Painter, Tocra I, no. 2159, pl. 28; ABV 643-44, 164-70; CVA Italy 41, Orvieto, Museo Claudio Faina, pl. 23, nos. 1 and 3. Cf. also Pholos Group, ABL pl. 42:2a, b (man on diphros); for long tail of satyr at left, ABL pl. 31:2; for staff in such a scene, ABL pl. 47:2; cf. also pl. 15:4a
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- NHR