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View of handle-plate. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Attic Black Figure Column-Krater Fragment
Monograph 10: The Corinthian, Attic, and Lakonian Pottery from Sardis
(1997)
Cat. Att 40
- Date
- Ca. 580-560 BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P62.306
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Column Krater
- Pottery Ware
- Attic Black Figure
- Pottery Attribution
- KY Painter (?)
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- PN
- Trench
- PN
- B-Grid Coordinates
- *88 - 87.8
- Findspot
- PN "Persian East" *88.00--*87.80. (For more on the findspot, Pl. 3 and "The Lakonian Pottery," 134 and n. 9.)
- Description
- Handle-plate. On top surface, a lotus flower with tendrils. Within the outspreading sepals of the lotus flower are alternating purple and black petals, separated by incised lines. A black cuff and purple calyx are at the bottom of the flower. On either side, growing from the base of the flower, is a knotted tendril pattern. The stalk of the plant is in purple. The sides and back of the handle-plate are black, but one of the sides and the back were painted in dilute glaze. The underside and curved central portion of the handle are black, but the insides of the "columns" were left unpainted. Some paint has flaked away from the palmette. The KY Painter introduced column-kraters to the Attic repertory.
- Dimensions
- Max. H. of plate 0.013; W. of plate 0.083; P.L. of plate 0.053; diam. of "column" 0.018.
- Comments
- Cf. ABFV 18; ABV 31.1, 3--4. Another column-krater reached Old Smyrna, Boardman, “Old Smyrna,” 162, no. 8, pl. 35.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- NHR