• m10-att-484-10
    Interior view of bowl fragment with palmettes and rouletting. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
  • m10-att-484-20
    Exterior view of fragment of ring foot. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
  • m10-att-484-30
    Drawing. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Fragment of an Attic Black Glaze Bowl Floor with Graffiti, Rouletting, and Painted Decoration

Date
mid-4th century BC, Late Lydian (Persian)
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P96.092
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery, Graffito
Pottery Shape
Bowl
Pottery Ware
Attic Black Glaze
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
PN
Trench
PN
B-Grid Coordinates
W258 - W261 / S329 - S335
Findspot
Elevation not recorded; found in 1967.
Description
Fragment of ring foot. Reserved: grooved resting surface and join of foot and wall. Graffito on recessed bottom: N (?). Interior: alternately linked palmettes within rouletting, and central circle.
Dimensions
P.H. 0.015; diam. of foot 0.095
Comments
Cf. Agora XII, 129, for a discussion of the decoration.
See Also
Bibliography
Author
NHR