• m10-att-330-10
    Profile view of base fragment. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
  • m10-att-330-20
    Overview of base fragment. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
  • m10-att-330-30
    Drawing. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Attic Black Glaze: Skyphos- Type A: Attic Type Fragment

Monograph 10: The Corinthian, Attic, and Lakonian Pottery from Sardis (1997) Cat. Att 330
Date
Ca. 350 BC, Late Lydian (Persian)
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P63.087
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Skyphos
Pottery Ware
Attic Black Glaze
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
Locus
HoB Lydian I - Well Associated with Building F
B-Grid Coordinates
W2.5 / S113 *98.75 - 98.2
Findspot
well
Description
Fragment of base. Upper part of foot and wall reserved. Wall decorated with painted crossed rays. The grouping of lines shows that six brushes were used together. Lower part of outer foot and its underside glazed. Recessed bottom has two rings. Interior of cup glazed.
Dimensions
P.H. 0.023; diam. of foot 0.039; Th. 0.004.
Comments
Cf. Agora XII, 86--87 and no. 325, pl. 15; Boardman, “Old Smyrna,” no. 166, fig. 11, where a triple brush has been used for crossed rays.
See Also
Bibliography
Author
NHR

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