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Exterior view of fragment. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College) -
Interior view 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 8
- Date
- Ca. 575-540 BC (?), Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P86.008
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Cup
- Pottery Ware
- Lakonian Black Figure
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- MMS
- Trench
- MMS-III 86.1
- Locus
- MMS-III 86.1 Locus 8
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E102.35 / S87.75 *104.54
- Description
Fragment from central part of bowl with pattern decoration. Clay hard, orange-tan (5YR 6/6) blending to grayish (5YR 6/4) at center. Interior and exterior, self slip or no slip, over which decoration in black (N/2) glaze and red (interior only; 5 Y R 4/2) paint.
Interior: black petals and concentric bands. From center out, bands as follows: radial petals; under petal tips, thin dilute black bands; at petal tips, thin red band; thin dilute black, broad red bands.
Exterior: reserved zone with band near stem, row of three-petal pomegranates between narrow bands (one below, two above); above reserved zone, black glaze.
- Dimensions
- P.W. 0.037; PL. 0.034; Th. 0.005
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Published: BASOR Suppl. 26 (1990) 163, n. 42, mis-identified as Corinthian. For interior central rosettes, Tocra I, 82.
- Author
- CHG