• m10-lak-5-10
    Interior view of fragments. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
  • m10-lak-5-20
    Exterior view of fragments. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
  • m10-lak-5-30
    Drawing. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
  • m10-lak-5-40
    Drawing. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Lakonian Black-figure Cup Fragments

Date
Ca. 560-555 BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P93.056
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Cup
Pottery Ware
Lakonian Black Figure
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
MMS
Trench
MMS-I 93.1
Locus
MMS-I 93.1 Locus 50
B-Grid Coordinates
E155 / S060 *99.58
Findspot
Yard of residential complex.
Description

Two fragments from outer part of bowl. Clay micaceous, light brown (7.5 YR 6/6). Interior and exterior, cream slip, over which decoration in black glaze and red paint (the latter over glaze and only on B). Incision on interior.

Interior of A: knees and upper legs of komast or komast-like figure, to right and eccentric in orientation; knee muscles and upper edge of right leg are incised. Interior of B: adjacent zones of black and red, with three parallel and curving lines of incision in the black, making a border for the red; one edge of the black zone is preserved, with a reserved zone beyond.

Exterior: narrow rays, above which three narrow bands.

The interior of B might show the tricot and thigh of a second figure, also to right and eccentric in orientation; and the two figures might belong to a radial group, like the “wind spirits” on a cup in the manner of the Arkesilas Painter (Stibbe, LV pl. 80.5; the other, unpublished, Swiss market), and “athletes” or komasts on a cup by the Rider Painter (Stibbe, LV no. 288; the last three examples provided by Stibbe, personal communication, 9 October, 1994); cf. also the birds of Lak 2.

Decoration tentatively attributed by Stibbe to the Typhon Painter, “probably his work” (personal communication, supra), because of two parallel vertical hooks in the incision of the left knee on A and they type of rays (Stibbe, LV no. 342; p. 180, Type 4).

Dimensions
A: P.H. 0.02; P.L. 0.025; Th. 0.004. B: P.H. 0.015; P.L. 0.023; Th. 0.004
Comments
See Also
Bibliography
For the Typhon Painter, Stibbe, LV 185-186, 288, nos. 341-43. For Corinthian examples of komasts, see Cor 83, Cor 120; for Attic examples, see Att 46, Att 84.
Author
CHG