• r8-hob-280-10
    HoB 280: Large Bichrome krater. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

    Large Bichrome krater

    Date
    Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC, Early Lydian
    Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
    P64.356
    Material
    Ceramic
    Object Type
    Pottery
    Pottery Shape
    Krater
    Pottery Ware
    Lydian Painted - White Bichrome - 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 / S117.5-119 To *96.40
    Description
    A lower body fragment of a krater with black patterns over red slip and bands of white paint on top of the slip. Crosshatched squares between horizontal lines on alternating red and white bands. Interior red slipped.
    Dimensions
    H. 0.106, W. 0.11, Th. 0.009.
    Comments
    See Also
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    Author
    AR