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Overview of fragment. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College) -
Drawing (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Lakonian II Cup Fragment
Monograph 10: The Corinthian, Attic, and Lakonian Pottery from Sardis
(1997)
Cat. Lak 4
- Date
- Ca. 600 BC, Lydian
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, MANISA
- Museum Inventory No.
- MANISA
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P86.061
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Cup
- Pottery Ware
- Lakonian
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- MMS
- Trench
- MMS Hwy 86.1
- Locus
- MMS Hwy 86.1 Locus 5
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E120 - E114 / S51.5 - S53 *99.5 - 100.3
- Findspot
- highway trench.
- Description
Handle zone-lower body fragment. Clay light brown (7.5 Y R 6/4) with little or no mica.
Interior: streaky dark brown/black (5YR 2/2) glaze with metallic sheen.
Exterior: cream (2.5 Y R 8/4) slip, over which decoration in brown (10 Y R 5/6) glaze and red (7.5 Y R 3/2) paint. In handle zone, frieze of birds to right (parts of two preserved), with red tips to their tails. Below, bands: three thin black, one broad red, three thin black. Below bands, rays alternately black and red
Skyphos (?); cf. Stibbe, LV 12 n. 8
- Dimensions
- P.H. 0.052; P.W. 0.068; Th. 0.003.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Published: BASOR Suppl. 26 (1990) 143 and 169, n. 11.
- Author
- CHG