-
Overview of shoulder fragment with broken handle. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College) -
Drawing: profile. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College) -
Drawing. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Lakonian Krater Fragment
Monograph 10: The Corinthian, Attic, and Lakonian Pottery from Sardis
(1997)
Cat. Lak 10
- Date
- Ca. 575-550 BC (?), Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P61.490
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Krater
- Pottery Ware
- Lakonian Black Figure
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- PN
- Trench
- PN
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W265 / S370 ca *86.10
- Findspot
- In mixed fill.
- Description
Shoulder fragment with pattern ornament with lower part of neck and part of handle, perhaps belonging to a volute krater. Clay gray-tan, non-micaceous, hard. Decoration in cream slip, black glaze, red paint.
Interior: black glaze except for narrow reserved band at top of shoulder.
Exterior: over handle and handle root zone, black. Left of handle, cream slip, over which decoration in black and red as follows: above, tongues with alternating black and red centers; below, band of rectilinear pattern, probably crosses between double dividers.
- Dimensions
- P.H. 0.0715; PL.0.077; Th. of wall 0.007.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- For similar shoulder pattern on Lakonian kraters from Gela and Naxos in Sicily, see Pelagatti, 16-17, figs. 58, 59.
- Author
- CHG