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    HoB 477: Ephesianizing stemmed dish with lug attachments. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Ephesianizing stemmed dish with lug attachments

Date
Context: early to third quarter of 7th c BC, Lydian
Museum
Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 7450
Museum Inventory No.
7450
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P65.173
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Stemmed Dish
Pottery Ware
Lydian Painted - Ephesianizing
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
Locus
HoB Lydian II - Bothros East of Building G
B-Grid Coordinates
W29 - W31 / S114 - S115 *98.2 - 97.2
Findspot
W29-31 / S114-115 *98.2-97.2 hoard; W21–23 / S113–115 *98.65–98.55; W27–30 / S110–115 To *98.2; W28–30 / S110–115 *98.3–98.1; W29–31 / S114–115 *98.2–97.2 ⁓ South Side
Description
Several joining fragments of rim, bowl, and lugs of Ephesianizing stemmed dish. One lug attachment and stem missing. Flaring rim; very shallow bowl; four horizontal lug attachments placed opposite each other. Four horizontal ridges below rim on the exterior, and wide horizontal grooves, forming four widely spaced ridges on the interior. On the exterior, a horizontal ridge above stem and another one (less pronounced) on the stem. Dark matt paint and added red over creamy white slip. Exterior, along edge of rim, centrally dotted square bars in a band with a single line above and below; near the mid-body, wide band with two lines above and four lines below; a reserved band; lower body painted. Interior, centrally dotted square bars in a band with a single line above and below; two lines and then a red band with a dark line above and below; two further lines; the two central ridges are painted red and framed by dark lines above and below, and with two horizontal lines between them; five lines at the central bowl. Lugs are painted.
Dimensions
H. 0.035, Diam. of rim 0.24, Th. 0.006–0.01, lug attachments ca. 0.03 × 0.01.
Comments
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Author
GGD