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HoB 161: Brown on Buff jug. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Brown on Buff jug
- Date
- Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC, Early Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P13.204
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Jug
- 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
- E0 - E5 / S97.5 - S100 *96.4 - 96
- Findspot
- E0-5 / S97.5-100 *96.4-96.0
- Description
- Neck and shoulder fragment of medium-sized jug; orangish-buff micaceous clay with gray core. Brown on Buff decoration. Exterior, on neck checkerboard pattern of alternating reserved and filled squares; on shoulder, two lines, below which are crosshatched triangles. Exterior smoothed. Cf. HoB 160.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.0435, W. 0.075, Th. 0.005–0.0085.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- AR