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Overview of fragment. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College) -
Drawing. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Attic Black Glaze Kantharos
Monograph 10: The Corinthian, Attic, and Lakonian Pottery from Sardis
(1997)
Cat. Att 345
- Date
- Ca. 450 BC, Late Lydian (Persian)
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P64.293
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Kantharos
- Pottery Ware
- Attic Black Glaze
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- PN
- Trench
- PN
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W237 - W247 / S347 - S354 *88.60 - 88
- Findspot
- Found with a rock crystal lion (J64.2:6339); a floral band cup fragment,
Att 93 ; a base with graffito,Att 276 ; and Lydian pottery.
- Description
- Fragment of wall. Straight upper wall spreads to projecting molding at top of the lower wall. Exterior: near bottom of the upper wall, elaborate palmettes rest on a horizontal line, from which hang boxed triangles. On projecting molding, a maeander pattern with crossed squares at intervals. A groove below this. Interior and exterior glazed.
- Dimensions
- P.H. 0.04; diam. at projecting molding ca. 0.09; Th. 0.004.
- Comments
- On the context, see BASOR 177 (1965) 6--9. For shape, cf. Agora XII, "Sessile with low handles," 281, no. 633, fig. 7. For boxed triangles, cf. ibid., no. 635, pl. 47, and for rare maeander pattern, cf. ibid., no. 638, with parallels.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- NHR