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HoB 159: Black on Red krater. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Black on Red krater
- Date
- Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC, Early Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P12.059
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Krater
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Painted - Black on Red - Patterned
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian IV - Deep Sounding C
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E0 - E5 / S97.5 - S100 *96.4 - 96
- Findspot
- E0-5 / S97.5-100 *96.4-96.0
- Description
- Rim and partial handle of a Black on Red krater. Reddish-buff micaceous clay with gray core. Vertical rim with squared lip. Exterior, duller black band below ledge rim; below this, a crosshatched angular meander pattern. Interior plain. Remains of a vertical loop handle on rim. Exterior and rim smoothed.
- Dimensions
- H. with handle stump 0.053, Th. of rim 0.021.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- AR