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Overview of fragment. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Attic Black Figure Siana Cup Fragment
Monograph 10: The Corinthian, Attic, and Lakonian Pottery from Sardis
(1997)
Cat. Att 49
- Date
- 570-560 BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P96.049
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Siana Cup
- Pottery Ware
- Attic Black Figure
- Pottery Attribution
- C Painter (?)
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- PN
- Trench
- PN
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W265.00 - W270.00 / S330.00 - S336.00 *87.80 - 87.50
- Findspot
- found in 1967. Found with Att 58, band cup fragment.
- Description
- Body fragment. Exterior: wing of a bird, sphinx, or siren with added red and incision on the wing. Horizontal line above. Interior: border of the tondo has three concentric circles, a double row of dots, and at least two more concentric circles.
- Dimensions
- P.H. 0.015; P.W. 0.022; Th. 0.0025.
- Comments
- On the C Painter's use of dots in a tondo, ABFV 32. Cf. also Boardman, “Old Smyrna,” 165, no. 34, pl. 35. For the position of the bird (?) on exterior, see a cup by the Heidelberg Painter, Würzburg, Martin von Wagner Mus. 452, from Vulci: ABV 63, 6l; ABFV fig. 40.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- NHR