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Overview of wall fragment. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Attic Black Figure Amphora Fragment
Monograph 10: The Corinthian, Attic, and Lakonian Pottery from Sardis
(1997)
Cat. Att 8
- Date
- 550-500 BC, Late Lydian (Persian)
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P83.029
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Amphora
- Pottery Ware
- Attic Black Figure
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- ByzFort
- Trench
- ByzFort 83.1
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E684 / S336.5 *184.97
- Description
- Wall fragment of an amphora (?). Warrior moving left, walking on ground line; only his leg and probably a trace of his shield are preserved. Added purple on his leg, representing a greave, and incision for the calf muscle. At left the lower part of an opponent's shield, decorated with added purple within an outer dilute glaze band with black dots. Probably an Ionian imitation of Attic black figure.
- Dimensions
- P.H. 0.03; P.W. 0.065; Th. 0.004--0.006.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Published: BASOR Suppl. 24 (1986) 16.
- Author
- NHR