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Fragment of an Attic Black Figure Little Master Lip Cup

Date
Ca. 540-530 BC, Late Lydian (Persian)
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P60.394
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Little Master Cup
Pottery Ware
Attic Black Figure
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
AC
Trench
AcT
B-Grid Coordinates
ca. *400.3
Findspot
trench E 11 -- 13/A -- B
Description
Fragment. Exterior: lip and handle zone reserved. The handle zone has a cross-linked lotus-and-bud frieze with a glaze line at the top of the pattern. A splatter (?) of dilute glaze between lotus buds. Black glaze below. Interior glazed. The pattern is like that of Droop cups, but without the solid black concave lip.
Dimensions
P.H. 0.032; P.W. 0.047; Th. 0.002--0.003.
Comments
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Author
NHR