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    HoB 403: Bichrome dish. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Bichrome dish

Report 8: Ordinary Lydians at Home: The Lydian Trenches of the House of Bronzes and Pactolus Cliff at Sardis (2021) Cat. HoB 403
Date
Context: early to third quarter of 7th c BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P12.139
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Dish
Pottery Ware
Lydian Painted - Red Bichrome - Banded
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
Locus
HoB Lydian II - Building H
B-Grid Coordinates
W32 - W33 / S124 floor *98.8
Findspot
W32-33 / S124 *98.8 floor
Description
Bichrome rim and body fragment of dish. Slightly everted and thickened rim; smooth carination below rim; shallow bowl. Matt black, red, and added white. Exterior, painted above rim; red horizontal band along and below rim. Interior, plain red paint along rim; white band with a single black horizontal line above and below; wide red band; white band with a black line above.
Dimensions
H. 0.045, Th. 0.006, Diam. of rim 0.25.
Comments
See Also
Bibliography
Author
GGD

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