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    Overview of rim fragment. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Lakonian Krater Fragment

Date
Ca. 580-540 BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P96.099
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Krater
Pottery Ware
Lakonian Black Figure
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
PN
Trench
PN
B-Grid Coordinates
W225 - W230 / S363 - S365
Findspot
Unstratified; found in 1970.
Description

Rim-neck fragment. Clay gray (10 Y R 5/2). Decoration in cream (2.5 Y 7/2-6/2) slip and black (N3/) glaze. Slip mostly worn away.

Interior of neck, on inner top surface of rim, on exterior of neck, glaze. On outer top surface of rim, slip. On side of rim, slip, over which maeander hooks between rows of dots (Stibbe Type 3) in glaze.

Dimensions
P.H. 0.076; P.W. 0.052; est. diam. of rim, 0.30; Th. of rim 0.016.
Comments
See Also
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Author
CHG