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HoB 521: Myrina amphora. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Myrina amphora
- Date
- Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC, Lydian
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 5365
- Museum Inventory No.
- 5365
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P58.588
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Myrina Amphora
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Painted - Red Bichrome - Banded, Lydian Painted - Orientalizing
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian I - Lydian Shop
- B-Grid Coordinates
- floor *96.7
- Findspot
- The Lydian Shop *96.7 floor
- Description
- Myrina type amphora. Many joining fragments of rim, body, and handle. Flaring square rim; nearly vertical neck; articulated transition at the join between neck and shoulder; spherical body; centrally grooved basket handle set on shoulder (single handle preserved). Matt black and red to dark streaky on fine thick white slip. Exterior, painted on rim; edge of rim white slipped. Neck has four horizontal bands of centrally dotted metopes divided by twelve short vertical lines, each band with a single horizontal line above and below, and separated by a horizontal red-black streaky band; a single dark line over the lowest streaky band at the transition from neck to shoulder. Shoulder: band of lotus “flower and bud” chain and filling ornament of standing triangle with a drop at top, and star-rosette; handle is plain streaky. Belly is streaky, with a dark line above and three dark lines below. Lower body, a row of concentric hooks over white slip.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.415, Diam. of rim 0.305, Th. 0.005–0.008.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Hanfmann, “Sardis 1958,” p. 33, fig. 15; Fogg Art Museum, Annual Report (1957–1958), p. 17; Mellink 1960, pl. 14, fig. 13. Greenewalt 1970, p. 110, fig. 3.
- Author
- GGD