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Overview of fragment. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Attic Black Figure Lekanis Fragment
Monograph 10: The Corinthian, Attic, and Lakonian Pottery from Sardis
(1997)
Cat. Att 44
- Date
- Ca. 580-570 BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P89.010
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Lekanis
- Pottery Ware
- Attic Black Figure
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- ByzFort
- Trench
- ByzFort 89.12
- B-Grid Coordinates
- ca E667 - E669 / S347 - S349 ca *192.4
- Findspot
- Lydian context, disturbed by Hellenistic
- Description
- Fragment of wall. Siren to right, near the handle zone, which was at left. Added red on the tail and wing feathers.
- Dimensions
- P.H. 0.043; P.W. 0.045; Th. 0.0055.
- Comments
- The identification of the shape was confirmed by Tomris Bakır (personal communication). For a lekanis by the Panther Painter, with a similar siren, Paralipomena II, 2 (Athens NM 16354, from Vari); ABFV fig. 29. Cf. Agora XXIII, 51--53.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- NHR