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HoB 244: Black on Red pot stand or foot of large krater. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Black on Red pot stand or foot of large krater
- Date
- Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC, Early Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P62.201
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Stand, Krater
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Painted - Black on Red - Patterned
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian IV - Deep Sounding B
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E8 / S88 *96.5 - 95.45
- Findspot
- E8 / S88 To *95.45
- Description
- Fragment of a Black on Red pot stand or krater foot. Coarse, red micaceous clay with a gray core. Strong black color and red slipped. Exterior decoration consists of a crosshatched meander pattern that alternates with a large crosshatched vertical rectangle bordered below by a horizontal line. Below this is a field of checkerboard with black and reserved squares. Interior smoothed. Unclear which way is up, but thicker at one end than the other.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.074, Diam. of base 0.18, Th. 0.025.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- AR