• r8-hob-137-10
    HoB 137: Brown on Buff bowl. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

    Brown on Buff bowl

    Date
    Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC, Early Lydian
    Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
    P13.176
    Material
    Ceramic
    Object Type
    Pottery
    Pottery Shape
    Bowl
    Pottery Ware
    Lydian Painted - Brown on Buff
    Pottery Attribution
    Site
    Sardis
    Sector
    HoB
    Trench
    HoB
    Locus
    HoB Lydian IV - Deep Sounding C
    B-Grid Coordinates
    W0 - W3 / S100 - S106 *95.5 - 94.8
    Findspot
    W0-3 / S100-106 *95.5-94.8
    Description
    Everted rim fragment. Buff micaceous clay. Dark brown wide band on rim, on both interior and exterior. Beginnings of painted decoration of four lines, probably pendent concentric semicircles, below band on exterior.
    Dimensions
    H. 0.031, W. 0.045, Th. 0.006.
    Comments
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    Author
    AR