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Overview of fragment. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Attic Black-Figure Lekythos Fragment
Monograph 10: The Corinthian, Attic, and Lakonian Pottery from Sardis
(1997)
Cat. Att 34
- Date
- early 5th C. BC, Late Lydian (Persian)
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P63.185
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Lekythos
- Pottery Ware
- Attic Black Figure
- Pottery Attribution
- Little-lion class
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E0 / S115 Well *80.80
- Findspot
- in well
- Description
- Wall fragment. Tiny fragment of the lower left edge of a panel, with vertical border at left. The bottom edge on the panel is used as a ground line. A male figure runs or creeps to right; only his foot and a flowing chlamys falling behind are preserved. Dilute paint is used for three horizontal and two diagonal lines in cape.
- Dimensions
- P.H. 0.023; P.W. 0.015; Th. 0.0015.
- Comments
- For similar feet, which are characteristic of the Krotala Group, ABL 119, pl. 40:3. For Little-lion shape, ABL98-99. See also ABV 515-16 and Agora XXIII, 47 and nos. 1161-76, pi. 86. The curve of the wall is typical of vases of this type. Cf. also Kurtz, Lekythoi 80
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- NHR