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Overview of foot 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 52
- Date
- Ca. 560-550 BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P61.240
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Siana Cup
- Pottery Ware
- Attic Black Figure
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- PN
- Trench
- PN
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W245 / S375 to *87.3
- Description
- Siana or lip cup foot fragment. Black glaze on the upper part of the foot, with two narrow purple lines at turn to stem. Outer edge of the foot is purple. Underside reserved with narrow concentric rings: black, red, three black together, and another red. Very fine quality.
- Dimensions
- Diam. 0.075; Th. 0.003.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- On the rings under the foot, see Beazley, “Little Master Cups,” 168, 185; ABFV 32. For lip cups with this decoration, D. von Bothmer, "Five Attic Black-Figured Lip-Cups," AJA 66 (1962) 255--56.
- Author
- NHR