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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 Black-figure Cup Fragment
Monograph 10: The Corinthian, Attic, and Lakonian Pottery from Sardis
(1997)
Cat. Lak 7
- Date
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P86.056
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Cup
- Pottery Ware
- Lakonian Black Figure
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- ByzFort
- Trench
- ByzFort 86.12
- Locus
- ByzFort 86.12 Locus 17
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E675 - E673 / S354 - S357 *193.05
- Findspot
- From a pit (trench 12, bsk, 52), located below Roman room 7 and thought by excavator C. Ratté to be contemporaneous with room 7; the pit contained fragments of a molded bowl and a Hellenistic or Roman plate (respectively P86.102:9353 and P86.101:9350).
- Description
Fragment from central part of bowl. Clay light brown (5YR 6/4). Interior and exterior, cream (10 YR 7/3) slip, over which decoration in black (10 YR 3/1) glaze and red (10 R 4/3) paint; incision.
Interior: part of a motif with incised lines that resemble the body articulation of a snake or marine creature; at opposite edge, two or three narrow lines of glaze (not shown on drawing).
Exterior: pattern bands, from inside out: broad red; two thin black; solid rays; three thin black; broad red.
- Dimensions
- P.W. 0.024; PL. 0.03; Th. 0.003.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- CHG