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Overview of fragment. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Attic Black Figure Komast Skyphos Fragment
Monograph 10: The Corinthian, Attic, and Lakonian Pottery from Sardis
(1997)
Cat. Att 84
- Date
- no later than ca. 570 BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P65.111
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Komast Skyphos
- Pottery Ware
- Attic Black Figure
- Pottery Attribution
- Beziers Komast Painter (?)
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- PN
- Trench
- PN
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W280 - W285 / S320 - S325 *86.70 - 86.20
- Findspot
- In fill above a 6th-C. floor (floor at *85.50).
- Description
- Body fragment. Exterior: tendrils of a lotus flower and a rosette from near handles. Incision used for details; the petals of the rosette alternate black and added red. Interior: black glaze.
By an early komast painter, such as the Beziers Komast Painter, according to H. A. G. Brijder (by letter, 24 September 1984). He notes that "the rosette has a round heart and black-and-red petals, the tendrils are 'vertical,' and the lines in tendrils are accurately drawn," and he refers to the "accomplished draftsmanship" (cf. Brijder, 71--72). - Dimensions
- P.H. 0.035; P.W. 0.05; Th. 0.002.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- For a discussion of the findspot, see A. Ramage, Lydian Domestic and Commercial Architecture, 41. For another Attic komast, see Att 46; for Corinthian examples of komasts, see Cor 83 and Cor 120; for a Lakonian example, see Lak 5.
- Author
- NHR