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HoB 368: Black on Red plate. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Black on Red plate
- Date
- Context: last quarter of 8th c BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P68.027
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Dish
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Painted - Black on Red - Patterned
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian III - In Association with Human Remains
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W6 - W8 / S90 - S94 *96 - 95.8
- Findspot
- W6-8 / S90-94 *96.0-95.8
- Description
- Fragment of Black on Red plate with slightly in-turned rim. Interior, a register below the rim demarcated by two thick lines with five wavy horizontal lines in between. Below this is a metopal arrangement with groupings of six vertical wavy lines alternating with reserved spaces. Exterior, below the rim are the same group of six horizontal wavy lines between two bands, as on the interior. From the lower band, a series of pendent concentric semicircles. The red is a rich dark color. Both interior and exterior are polished.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.055, Diam. 0.34, Th. 0.006.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- AR