• m10-att-46-10
    Profile view. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
  • m10-att-46-20
    Profile view. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
  • m10-att-46-30
    Detail of dancing figures. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
  • m10-att-46-40
    View of palmette underneath handle. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
  • m10-att-46-50
    Drawing: profile. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Attic Black Figure Komast Cup

Monograph 10: The Corinthian, Attic, and Lakonian Pottery from Sardis (1997) Cat. Att 46
Date
Ca. 555 BC, Lydian
Museum
Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 7086
Museum Inventory No.
7086
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P84.056
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Komast Cup
Pottery Ware
Attic Black Figure
Pottery Attribution
Vienna Komast Painter
Site
Sardis
Sector
MMS
Trench
MMS-I 84.1
Locus
MMS-I 84.1 Locus 34
B-Grid Coordinates
E145.7 - E149 / S67.2 - S70 *100.46 - 100.43
Description
Fifty-four fragments of a nearly complete komast cup. The narrow offset lip is decorated with a net pattern, framed by black lines, one at rim and one at offset. On each side of the cup, two komasts, the left one naked and the right one padded, dance between palmettes and tendrils. One rosette decorates the field behind the left komast, on both sides of the cup. Purple added for the hair, tunic, buttock pads, and alternating petals of the rosette and palmette. Three horizontal lines make a border below the figures, and sixty-seven short rays spread above the black foot and into the lower body. The underside of the foot is reserved with a single black circle and dot in the center. The handles are glazed outside and reserved within. Occasional spots and drips of glaze attest to a somewhat sloppy painter, and a gouge on the upper body and lip was painted over as if to hide the defect. The vase for which the Vienna Komast Painter is named is almost identical to Att 46.
Dimensions
H. 0.072; W. with handles 0.215; diam. at rim 0.145; Th. 0.003.
Comments
See Also
See also: LATW Cat. 103
Bibliography
Published: Ramage, “Attic Cups”; BASOR Suppl. 25 (1987) 28, 29, fig. 13, and 66, fig. 10. For Vienna Komast Painter, , no. K 98, 82--84, pl. 6:d. On the context of this cup within a destroyed Lydian house and the chronological importance of the date yielded by the pottery, see Greenewalt, “Fall of Sardis,” 254--55, n. 15. For another Attic komast, see Att 84; for Corinthian examples of komasts, see Cor 83 and Cor 120; for a Lakonian example, see Lak 5. Lydians and Their World, cat. 103.
Author
NHR

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