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Interior view of fragment with forelegs and forequarter of sphinx. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College) -
Exterior view of fragment. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College) -
Drawing. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Attic Black Figure Plate Fragment
Monograph 10: The Corinthian, Attic, and Lakonian Pottery from Sardis
(1997)
Cat. Att 88
- Date
- 575-550 BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- NoEx78.013
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Plate
- Pottery Ware
- Attic Black Figure
- Pottery Attribution
- Polos Painter
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- MMS
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E130 / S65
- Findspot
- surface find
- Description
- Fragment. Interior: central tondo and surrounding frieze. In tondo, part of a floral cross is preserved with the end of a curling tendril. A series of four concentric lines separates the tondo from frieze, on which are preserved the forelegs and forequarter of a sphinx, left, and the front legs of another (?), right. Added red for the chest of the sphinx and between the striations of the floral cross. Incision, mainly shown as two short curved parallel lines, on feet, upper legs, and body, and to indicate the base of the wing. Exterior: front paw and chest of a sphinx (?) and a painted line (unclear). Added red for spots on the foreleg; incision for the claws and striations on chest. Glaze is quite black on exterior, but comes out brown on interior. The composition of the interior, with facing sphinxes and a central floral cross with incised cross-hatching and vertical striations, is typical of plates by the Polos Painter.
- Dimensions
- P.H. 0.05; P.W. 0.04; Th. 0.006.
- Comments
- Cf. plates by the Polos Painter, D. Callipolitis-Feytmans, Les plats attiques à figures noires (Paris 1974) 341--42, nos. 5--8, pl. 56. Tocra I, nos. 1088--90, pls. 82, 83.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Published: BASOR 245 (1982) 20, figs. 20, 21.
- Author
- NHR