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Overview of neck and shoulder fragment. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College) -
Drawing: profile. (©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 9
- Date
- Ca. 575-550 BC (?), Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P79.011
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Krater
- Pottery Ware
- Lakonian Black Figure
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- MMS
- Trench
- MMS/N 79.1
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E145.2 / S19.2 *96.66
- Findspot
- N foundation trench for late Hellenistic or early Roman "oblique foundation A."
- Description
Fragment of neck and shoulder, evidently belonging to a volute krater. On shoulder, handle scar. Clay fine, dull reddish brown (5 YR 6/3-6/4, "light reddish brown") at exterior changing to gray (slightly darker than 7.5 Y R 5/2, "brown") at inner edge, non-micaceous.
Interior: black glaze on inside of neck and bottom of shoulder (at break).
Exterior: cream-yellow (between 2.5 Y 8/4 and 2.5 Y 8/6, "pale yellow" to "yellow") slip, over which decoration in black (N3/-N2/) glaze, red (10R 3/6) paint, and incision. On neck, double-broom palmette chain, with red palmette centers. Below, border band. On shoulder, outlined solid tongues in the sequence two black, one red, two black.
- Dimensions
- P.H. 0.005; PL. 0.115; est. diam. of neck: int. 0.23, ext. 0.25; Th. 0.0072-0.010.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Published: Stibbe, Mixing Bowls 24, 26, 92, no. B15. Stibbe noted (p. 26) "unusual neck decoration, which recalls an experiment by the Naucratis painter (B4)" and a comparable fragment of a volute krater in Basel (collection H. Cahn 1032; Stibbe's B16). According to Stibbe (personal communication, 23 April 1983), Lak 9 "should belong to a crater with black-figure decoration on the belly."
- Author
- CHG