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Overview of rim fragment. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College) -
Drawing: profile. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Fragment of an Attic Black Figure Little Master Band Cup
Monograph 10: The Corinthian, Attic, and Lakonian Pottery from Sardis
(1997)
Cat. Att 59
- Date
- 550-540 BC, Late Lydian (Persian)
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P64.218
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Little Master Cup
- Pottery Ware
- Attic Black Figure
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- PN
- Trench
- PN
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W248 - W249 / S350 - S355 *87.60 - 87.40
- Findspot
- Found with Att 41 and Att 102. Findspot is W of Unit VIII, but no buildings are associated with this area.
- Description
- Rim and bowl fragment. The lip is turned out slightly. Wide reserved band with a lion rearing slightly on his hind legs and pawing the air with both front feet. His mouth is open, with tongue hanging out. His tongue and tail are in dilute glaze, the mane is in added red. There is incision at the rump, shoulder, beard, face, and ear. Short incised strokes are used also on the legs and haunch. A second narrow reserved band is found on the exterior, around the lower bowl, and there is a reserved line on the interior rim. The piece was thought to be Euboean on the initial suggestion of D. von Bothmer (personal communication), but has been confirmed as Attic by chemical analysis (Appendix 2, samples AP 1a and AP 2a).
- Dimensions
- P.H. 0.05; est. diam. 0.15; Th. 0.002--0.0035.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Published: BASOR 177 (1965) 8--9, fig. 8.
- Author
- NHR