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Overview of lip fragment. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Fragment of an Attic Black Figure Cassel Cup
Monograph 10: The Corinthian, Attic, and Lakonian Pottery from Sardis
(1997)
Cat. Att 67
- Date
- Ca. 530-500 BC, Late Lydian (Persian)
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P63.331
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Cassel Cup
- Pottery Ware
- Attic Black Figure
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- PN
- Trench
- PN
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W242 / S348 *88
- Description
- Fragment of lip. Exterior: black-glaze band at the rim and another narrow band over alternating purple and black tongues separated by vertical lines. Three more narrow horizontal lines and upper part of an ivy wreath. Interior: reserved band near the rim.
- Dimensions
- P.H. 0.024; P.W. 0.042; diam. 0.14; Th. 0.003.
- Comments
- Cf. Oxford, Ashmolean Mus. 1934.297; ABFV fig. 130. K. DeVries (personal communication) reports that there are many more Cassel cups at Gordion.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- NHR