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HoB 370: Large Bichrome stand. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Large Bichrome stand
- Date
- Context: last quarter of 8th c BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P68.007
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Stand
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Painted - White Bichrome - Patterned
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian III - In Association with Human Remains
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W7 - W8 / S90 - S92 *96.1
- Findspot
- W7-8 / S90-92 *96.1
- Description
- Thick-walled base with flaring foot that transitions into a cylindrical neck. Painted on exterior with red and black paint on a white ground. On the cylindrical neck, outlined in black: vertical rectangles filled with diamonds made by diagonal intersecting lines in rows of white and red; another of white and red checkerboard; another with a large square with smaller squares of checkerboard alternating with reserved white; a rectangle filled with diamonds, and a rectangle filled with checkerboard. At the base of the neck, a raised ridge with a red band surrounded by two black bands. The flaring foot has two registers of decoration: the upper is decorated with unevenly spaced outlines of circles with a dot at the center. On the lower register, red upside-down triangles outlined in black, which together make a zigzag, rest upon a black band.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.13, Diam. of foot 0.20, Diam. of stand at upper break 0.10, Th. 0.01.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- AR