Attic Black Figure Lekythos
Monograph 10: The Corinthian, Attic, and Lakonian Pottery from Sardis
(1997)
Cat. Att App. 7
- Date
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- Butler B-P1316
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Lekythos
- Pottery Ware
- Attic Black Figure
- Pottery Attribution
- Sector
- Nec
- Trench
- Tomb 722
- Findspot
- Necropolis, Tomb 722, found at end of sarcophagus.
- Description
- Complete and unbroken. Black glaze on the foot, lower body, handle, and rim. Chase, "Field Notes": " On shoulder, double row of tongues. On body, fine hard yellowish white slip, bordered above and below by a narrow brown-black stripe and decorated with a group of five enclosed palmettes, with dots between, and lotus flower at either side. Over black varnish, just below white panel, two red stripes; near outer edge of foot, circle in red over-color.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.105; diam. 0.043
- Comments
- Cf. Athens NM 2213, ABL pl. 36:5. Also in tomb: bronze mirror, bronze box mirror, stone weight, glass (composition) bead, iron spearhead, alabastron with graffito, flacon (porphyry?), lamps, and gold ring: Sardis XI, 38, no. 98, pi. 9:
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- NHR