• r8-hob-325-10
    HoB 325: Red on White high-stemmed dish. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Red on White high-stemmed dish

Date
Context: last quarter of 8th c BC, Lydian
Museum
Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 5346
Museum Inventory No.
5346
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P66.025
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Stemmed Dish
Pottery Ware
Lydian Painted - White Bichrome - Patterned
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
Locus
HoB Lydian III - Central Area
B-Grid Coordinates
W3 / S102 *97.6
Findspot
W3 / S102 *97.6
Description
Nearly whole Red on White stemmed dish with complete profile. Interior decoration from rim: band at rim with pendent concentric semicircles; band with standing concentric semicircles; three more bands; band with pendent concentric semicircles; at middle, circle with crosshatched triangles inside and standing concentric semicircles on the outside perimeter. Exterior: band at rim with concentric pendent semicircles; two closely spaced bands with standing concentric semicircles on topmost band; two sets of closely spaced bands; stem painted with bands. Interior and exterior heavily burned. The true colors preserved on part of the stem.
Dimensions
H. 0.135, Diam. of rim 0.22, Diam. of foot 0.11.
Comments
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Author
AR