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Overview of rim and neck fragment. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College) -
Overview of rim and neck fragment. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College) -
Overview of rim fragment. (©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 11
- Date
- Ca. 580-540 BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P61.157
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Krater
- Pottery Ware
- Lakonian Black Figure
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- PN
- Trench
- PN
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W260 / S350 *87.65
- Findspot
- PN W 265.00-270.00/S 355.00-360.00 *87.40 and W 260.00-265.00/S 350.00-355.00 *87.65, gravel fil; PN W 248.00-250.00/S337.00-339.00 *88.00-*87.75.
- Description
Rim-neck fragments including handle-plate (two joining fragments making one-third to one-fourth of the rim and two small rim fragments) of a stirrup krater. Clay gray pink-tan (5 Y R 5/4) at outside blending to gray-brown (10 Y R 5/2) at core; fine; with small holes. Decoration in buff cream (10 Y R 7/3) slip and black (N3/) glaze.
Interior of neck, on top surface of rim and of handle-plate, and on exterior of neck, black glaze. On sides of rim and of handle-plate, cream slip, over which decoration in black as follows: on side of rim, broken maeander hooks between rows of dots (Stibbe Type 3) in glaze; on handle-plate, key or maeander motif. On underside of rim on largest fragment, black; underside of rim of two small fragments reserved.
- Dimensions
- H. of rim 0.026; est. diam. of rim 0.30; Th. of rim 0.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- CHG