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Overview of lower body and torus foot. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Attic Black Figure Skyphos Base Fragment
Monograph 10: The Corinthian, Attic, and Lakonian Pottery from Sardis
(1997)
Cat. Att 82
- Date
- Ca. 470 BC, Late Lydian (Persian)
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P63.615A
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Skyphos
- Pottery Ware
- Attic Black Figure
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W2 - W12 / S117 - S122 *100.20 - 99.80
- Description
- Fragment of lower body and torus foot. Exterior: reserved area of the scene shows the hind legs of four horses (eight legs) and a chariot wheel. Incised lines only roughly related to painted areas. At right, lower part of a palmette. A black band below serves as the ground line. Black glaze on the lower wall and foot. Underside: resting surface reserved; inside of foot black glaze; black band on recessed bottom. Interior: black glaze. A thick-walled skyphos. Shape and decoration are similar to Att 83.
- Dimensions
- P.H. 0.033; diam. of foot 0.098; Th. 0.004.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- For similar scene on a skyphos, Agora XII, pl. 103, no. 1516.
- Author
- NHR