• r8-hob-257-10
    HoB 257: Black on Red jug. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Black on Red jug

Date
Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC, Early Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P60.561
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 Deep Sounding A
B-Grid Coordinates
E10 - E15 / S100 - S105 in floor *95.41 - 95.2
Findspot
E10-15 / S100-105 One fragment in *95.41-95.20 floor; the other above *95.41
Description
Two joining fragments of shoulder of Black on Red jug. Concentric standing semicircles (painted without a compass) imitating sub-Mycenaean. Two horizontal lines with traces of pendent semicircles below.
Dimensions
H. 0.043, W. 0.097, Th. 0.005.
Comments
See Also
Bibliography
Hanfmann, "Sardis 1960," p. 14, fig. 5.
Author
AR