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HoB 440: Ephesianizing dish. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Ephesianizing dish
- Date
- Context: early to third quarter of 7th c BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P12.154
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Dish
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Painted - Ephesianizing
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian II - Building K
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W34 - W37 / S102 - S105 *98.5 - 98.1
- Findspot
- W34-37 / S102-105 98.5-98.1; W25–28 / S114–116 *98.9–98.6 floor
- Description
- Three joining Ephesianizing fragments of rim and bowl. Plain rim with a very slight outcurve at the lip; shallow bowl. Matt black and red over thick and fine white slip. Exterior, band painted red, two horizontal black lines; wide band (paint worn off): left end of a loose spiral that ends up with a circular curl with a central red dot; to the right of spiral, a circle painted red with an outer circle in between two almond-shaped eyes with a central dot. Interior, from top to bottom, over rim, groups of short vertical black lines over red coat; below rim, narrow band with a single horizontal black line above and below: square bars divided by solid short vertical bands painted red (outlined in black), each square bar has a smaller inner square outlined in black and painted with alternating red and black; narrow band of ladder pattern on a red coat, with a single horizontal line above and below; single horizontal line.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.033, est. Diam. of rim 0.38, Th. 0.008.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- GGD