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    Overview of rim fragment. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Fragment of an Attic Black Figure Type A Cup

Date
early 5th C. BC, Late Lydian (Persian)
Museum
Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, MANISA
Museum Inventory No.
MANISA
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P62.194
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Cup Type A
Pottery Ware
Attic Black Figure
Pottery Attribution
Leafless Group
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
Locus
HoB Locus Bldg C
B-Grid Coordinates
W23 / S84 *99.5
Findspot
below stones of floor of Building C; Found with red-figure krater fragment, Att 121.
Description
Fragment of rim and bowl. Exterior: Dionysus, reclining on his left elbow, looks to left over his right shoulder. Right hand may be holding a cup. Drapery falls over his left shoulder. He is bearded and wears an ivy wreath. Added red is used for beard and dot on chest; a second dot, of white, also on chest. Vines and a bunch of grapes behind him. Interior: reserved band at rim.
Dimensions
P.H. 0.035; P.W. 0.055; Th. 0.003.
Comments
See Also
Bibliography
On Leafless Group, ABV 632; Agora XXIII, 96.
Author
NHR