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Overview of fragment. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Fragment of an Attic Black Figure Vessel of Indeterminable Shape
Monograph 10: The Corinthian, Attic, and Lakonian Pottery from Sardis
(1997)
Cat. Att 89
- Date
- 500-450 BC, Late Lydian (Persian)
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P63.630
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Indeterminable Shape
- Pottery Ware
- Attic Black Figure
- Pottery Attribution
- Sappho Painter (?)
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W2 - W10 / S117 - S123 *100.20 - 99.50
- Description
- Exterior: head of a youth looking downwards. The oval eye and strands of hair are incised. An added purple fillet in his hair. At left, a thin diagonal line leads toward part of an unidentifiable object (a pot rim?) or animal. Interior unglazed.
- Dimensions
- P.H. 0.03; P.W. 0.023; Th. 0.003.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- The eye is similar to and the subject may be like that on the lekythos, ABL pl. 35:3 (Athens NM 552; ABFV fig. 262.1, 2), where a woman holds a tipped hydria.
- Author
- NHR