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HoB 279: Black on Red plate. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Black on Red plate
- Date
- Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC, Early Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P64.355
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Stemmed Dish
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Painted - Black on Red - Patterned
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian IV - *96.4 Floor at W20/S115-120
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W20 - W23 / S117.5 - S119 to *96.4
- Findspot
- W20-23 / S117.50-119 To *96.40
- Description
- Fragment from a plate that was covered with standing and pendent concentric semicircles, with a broad black line between them, forming an apparent wave decoration. Traces of another row of semicircles or circles closer to the center of the plate. Similar to HoB 278.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.065, W. 0.086, Th. 0.005–0.007.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- AR