• r8-hob-53-10
    HoB 53: Black on Red plate. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

    Black on Red plate

    Report 8: Ordinary Lydians at Home: The Lydian Trenches of the House of Bronzes and Pactolus Cliff at Sardis (2021) Cat. HoB 53
    Date
    Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age, Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian
    Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
    P62.455
    Material
    Ceramic
    Object Type
    Pottery
    Pottery Shape
    Dish
    Pottery Ware
    Lydian Painted - Black on Red - Patterned
    Pottery Attribution
    Site
    Sardis
    Sector
    HoB
    Trench
    HoB
    Locus
    HoB LBA/EIA - Deep Sounding B - *94.75 Hearth and Below
    B-Grid Coordinates
    E5 - E10 / S95 to *94.8
    Findspot
    E5-10 / S95 To *94.80
    Description
    Rim fragment. Wide ledge rim decorated with two parallel lines painted a blackish-brown with groups of radial lines in between. On the exterior, an irregular wavy line enclosed by a parallel band on either side. Painted concentric circles preserved below this. A hole is drilled through the body.
    Dimensions
    H. 0.04, W. of ledge 0.024, est. Diam. 0.27, Th. 0.01.
    Comments
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    Author
    AR

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