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Overview of fragment of bowl of an eye cup. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Fragment of an Attic Black Figure Type A Cup
Monograph 10: The Corinthian, Attic, and Lakonian Pottery from Sardis
(1997)
Cat. Att 68
- Date
- 525-500 BC, Late Lydian (Persian)
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P58.559
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Cup Type A
- Pottery Ware
- Attic Black Figure
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- B
- Trench
- B 58
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W9.3 / S0 - S2.5
- Findspot
- level II, floor 1; south of room 3
- Description
- Fragment of bowl of an eye cup. The inner corner of a left eye partially preserved and, to the right, the small heel of a dancing figure. Sclera of the eye reserved. The second band of the eye was originally covered with white. Interior: black glazed.
- Dimensions
- P.H. 0.016; P.W. 0.033; Th. 0.004.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- On eye cups, see ARV 37--52; ABFV 107--108. On the development of the eye cup, see also B. Cohen, Attic Bilingual Vases and Their Painters (1978) 244--46 and Agora XXIII, 66--67.
- Author
- NHR