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HoB 331: Black on Red round-mouthed jug. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Black on Red round-mouthed jug
- Date
- Context: last quarter of 8th c BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P68.067
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Round-Mouthed Jug
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Painted - Black on Red - Patterned
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian III - Central Area
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W13 / S99 *97 - 96.8
- Findspot
- W13 / S99 *97-96.8; W10–15 / S95–100 To *96.9
- Description
Black on Red jug. Buff-red micaceous clay. Vertical rim, slightly flaring toward [missing] spout. Globular body with splaying ring foot. Vertical handle, oval in section. Exterior: small concentric circles in a row around the neck and another row on the body, each consisting of only one large and one small circle within. Interior plain.
Phrygian influence.
Gürtekin-Demir 2014, no. 11. A Phrygian shape but no reason to think it is not a Lydian product.
- Dimensions
- Diam. of body 0.11, Diam. of neck 0.097, H. of neck 0.004, Th. 0.005 (0.003 at rim), est. Diam. of foot 0.06, W. of handle 0.017.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- AR