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Overview of base fragment. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Attic Black Figure Skyphos Base Fragment
Monograph 10: The Corinthian, Attic, and Lakonian Pottery from Sardis
(1997)
Cat. Att 83
- Date
- Ca. 470 BC, Late Lydian (Persian)
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P62.309
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Skyphos
- Pottery Ware
- Attic Black Figure
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- PN
- Trench
- PN
- B-Grid Coordinates
- *88 - 87.8
- Findspot
- PN "Persian East" *88.00--*87.80. (For more on the findspot, Pl. 3 and "The Lakonian Pottery," 134 and n. 9.)
- Description
- Fragment of base. Exterior: reserved area of the scene shows the lower part of a palmette and, next to it, three vertical lines. D. von Bothmer (personal communication) calls this a Haimonian palmette. A purple dot on the palmette. Horizontal band; black glaze on lower wall and torus foot. Underside: resting surface reserved; inside of foot black glaze. Recessed bottom (as preserved) is reserved. Interior: black glaze. A thick-walled skyphos.
- Dimensions
- P.H. 0.03; diam. of foot 0.085; Th. 0.003.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- NHR