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Overview of fragment. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College) -
Drawing. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Fragment of an Attic Black Figure Type B Cup
Monograph 10: The Corinthian, Attic, and Lakonian Pottery from Sardis
(1997)
Cat. Att 73
- Date
- Ca. 500 BC, Late Lydian (Persian)
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P60.291
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Cup Type B
- Pottery Ware
- Attic Black Figure
- Pottery Attribution
- Leafless Group
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian I - Building A
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W1 - E3 / S101 - S104 *99.5
- Findspot
- Inside the west wall Lydian Building A, but the excavator thought it was an intrusion in otherwise earlier material.
- Description
- Fragment of the tondo and stem. Exterior: black glazed. Interior: in the tondo, a nude, dancing ithyphallic satyr. Torso, arms, legs, and tail preserved. Incision for internal details. White paint, now worn off, depicted a fillet held in his right hand. Interior of short stem was glazed to near the top. Attribution and dating by D. von Bothmer.
- Dimensions
- P.H. 0.036; diam. of stem 0.026.
- Comments
- For similar figure, cf. Boardman, “Old Smyrna,” 53--54, no. 86, pl. 38; ABV 713, no. 207 bis.
- See Also
- See also: R8, No. HoB 583
- Bibliography
- Published: BASOR 162 (1961) 12; 182, 14; Hanfmann-Detweiler, Trojan War Tamerlane, 537, fig. 7.
- Author
- NHR