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HoB 250: Globular Gray Ware jug. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Globular Gray Ware jug
- Date
- Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC, Early Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P62.380
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Jug
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Grayware
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian IV - Deep Sounding B
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E5 - E10 / S90 - S95 *95.3 - 94.9
- Findspot
- E5-10 / S90-95 *95.30-94.90
- Description
- Fragment from the body of a remarkably thin and elegant globular Gray Ware jug. Oblique, polished ridges beginning just above the curve of the belly go down the body at two angles, converging toward a central vertical band. Above these ridges, a line of extremely finely stamped decoration consisting of a horizontal wavy line flanked above and below by even finer oblique hatching. The two sets of oblique ridges are separated by a vertical stamped pattern of parallel zigzags. All the stampings have been enhanced with delicate incision and filled with white (perhaps tin oxide). Remains of a similar stamped pattern at the bottom of the sherd. Clearly handmade and carefully polished. (Note: Compare handmade pottery from Gordion. Sams 1994, pls. 4). Perhaps Thracian handmade, as at Troy or Bithynia; or Neolithic. (Note: Bithynia or Etruria suggested as possibilities by N. Aytaçlar [personal communication, Sardis, July 1–2, 2016]).
- Dimensions
- H. 0.05, W. 0.07, est. Diam. 0.11, Th. 0.005.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- AR