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Overview of fragment. (©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 31
- Date
- first half of 5th C. BC, Late Lydian (Persian)
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P60.401
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Lekythos
- Pottery Ware
- Attic Black Figure
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- PN
- Trench
- PN
- B-Grid Coordinates
- ca. W255 - W258 / S371 - S373 *87.5
- Findspot
- Room B north
- Description
- Wall fragment. Lower portion of a painted panel. At right, legs of a standing male figure, facing left. In center, a draped figure seated to right on a stool. One of the two figures holds a staff. At far left, drapery and foot of a third figure (?). A wide glazed ground line at bottom of the panel; below a reserved band and then solid black toward the base. Clay, which is brownish gray, has been burned. The piece is confirmed as Attic by chemical analysis (Appendix 2, sample AP 5b).
- Dimensions
- P.H. 0.058; P.W. 0.053; Th. 0.004--0.005.
- Comments
- For a comparison to the late, formless style, cf. Tocra I, pl. 29, no. 2168; cf. also Ure, Rhitsona classes B-D.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Published: BASOR 162 (1961) 29, fig. 13.
- Author
- NHR