Imported Geometric painted bowl
- Date
- Third quarter of the 8th c BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P62.251
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Bowl
- Pottery Ware
- East Greek Geometric
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian III - Central Area
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E3 / S97 *97.2
- Findspot
- E3 / S97 *97.20
- Description
Rim sherd of bowl (or skyphos?) with nicked rim. Exterior painted with black on a buff surface. Scheme shows three “metope” lines at left side; in center, a vertical rectangle filled with a network of lozenges with smaller lozenges inside; then an adjacent rectangle subdivided into an upper register of animals (birds? horses?) and a lower register of false meanders. Single black line around rim. Interior black streaked.
Ernst Langlotz (personal communication to C. H. Greenewalt, jr., August 29, 1970) thought there were similar pieces in Cos. M. Kerschner identified this as the standard fabric of Teos, and dated it in the third quarter of the eighth century (personal communication, Sardis, July 1–2, 2016).
- Dimensions
- H. 0.05, Diam. 0.14, Th. 0.03.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- AR