• r8-hob-246-10
    HoB 246: Black on Red small jug. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Black on Red small jug

Date
Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC, Early Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P62.384
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Jug
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
E10 - E5 / S90 - S95 *95.3 - 94.9
Findspot
E5-10 / S90-95 *95.30-94.90
Description
Neck of dull Black on Red trefoil-mouthed jug, preserved from the shoulder to near the rim. Entire neck painted with four rows of an evenly spaced checkerboard pattern consisting of alternately filled and reserved squares and rectangles.
Dimensions
H. 0.063, Diam. of neck 0.06, Th. 0.007.
Comments
See Also
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Author
AR