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Attic Black-Figure Lebes Fragment
Monograph 10: The Corinthian, Attic, and Lakonian Pottery from Sardis
(1997)
Cat. Att 35
- Date
- Ca. 580 BC, Lydian
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, MANISA
- Museum Inventory No.
- MANISA
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P63.057
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Lebes
- Pottery Ware
- Attic Black Figure
- Pottery Attribution
- Gorgon Painter (by or near)
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E0 / S115 to *99.5
- Description
- Wall fragment. Parts of two friezes from below the widest circumference of the pot. Upper frieze: a pendent lotus flower, a trace of a palmette to the left, and interlace. Cuff of the lotus has fine cross-hatching by incision. Most of the flower is painted with added purple; smaller petals alternate red and added purple. This is part of an addorsed lotus-palmette chain. Lower frieze: body and tail of a feline; the hair on the neck suggests a panther rather than a lion. Body is red, slightly streaked, with incised curves for ribs interspaced with added purple. Double front haunch line preserved under neck and on shoulder. Purple on the neck and on both hind legs. Tail, curled over the back, finished in a tassel elaborated by an incised line around its edge and a triangle at its base with radiating lines. Yellowish slip for the background. The two friezes are separated by a narrow black band. Black glaze on interior.
- Dimensions
- P.H. 0.068; P.W. 0.05; Th. 0.007.
- Comments
- For dinoi of the Gorgon Painter, ABV 8. Cf. Ingeborg Scheibler, "Olpen und Amphoren des Gorgonmalers," JdI 76 (1961) 6--14: for tail, figs. 1, 7, 10, 11, 15, 20; for double line at haunches, fig. 12. For panthers, Semni Karouzou, "Sophilos," AM 62 (1937) pl. 59:2; cf. also ABFV fig. 12. For crisscross pattern on lotus: ABV 39, no. 11; Semni Karouzou, "Sophilos," pl. 59:2; R. S. Young, "A Black-Figure Deinos," Hesperia 4 (1935) 430--31, figs. 1 and 5. Cf. also Dyfri Williams, "Sophilos in the British Museum," Greek Vases in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Occasional Papers I (Malibu 1983) 9--33.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- NHR