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HoB 410: Waveline amphora. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Waveline amphora
- Date
- Context: early to third quarter of 7th c BC, Lydian
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 4109
- Museum Inventory No.
- 4109
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P68.163
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Amphora
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Painted - Banded / Waveline
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian II - Building H
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W33 / S126 floor *99
- Findspot
- W33 / S126 *99.00 floor ⁓ between east and west walls in the middle of Building H
- Description
- Many joining fragments of Waveline amphora. Rounded and slightly outward curving rim; nearly vertical neck; sharp transition at the join between neck and shoulder; nearly globular body; flat base; two vertical handles from mid-neck to shoulder. Decoration red to dark red, and added white single horizontal line on neck; loops on shoulder; wide bands overpainted with narrow bands in white on belly and lower body; vertical and horizontal bands on handle.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.40, Diam. of rim 0.23, Diam. of body 0.36, Diam. of base 0.10.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- GGD