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HoB 508: Large Bichrome jar. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Large Bichrome jar
- Date
- Context: early to third quarter of 7th c BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P60.602
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Amphora, Oinochoe
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Painted - White Bichrome - Patterned
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian II - East End Nest of Pots
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E5 - E10 / S100 to *99
- Findspot
- E5-10 / S95-100 To *99.00 ⁓ East End
- Description
- White Bichrome. Several joining and nonjoining fragments of rim, neck, and shoulder of Bichrome jar. Thickened and flaring rim; wide and nearly vertical neck. Matt dark and red over white slip. Exterior, red paint covers rim; then a wide band of white slip painted with three lines, a wavy line with a horizontal line above and below, a row of closely arranged pendent concentric hooks of three lines each; and a wavy line with a line above and below; and two more horizontal lines. Transition to shoulder painted red. Partly preserved concentric circle below.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.177, Diam. of rim 0.28.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- GGD