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    HoB 530: Waveline hydria neck. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Waveline hydria neck

Date
Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P58.566
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Hydria Neck
Pottery Ware
Lydian Painted - Banded / Waveline
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

Several joining fragments of rim, neck, and shoulder of Waveline hydria. Everted and thickened rim; nearly vertical neck; articulated sharp transition at the join between neck and shoulder; vertical strap handle (stump preserved). Red to black streaky glaze. Band along rim. Neck has a single wavy line; horizontal band at the join between neck and shoulder; upper shoulder, part of horizontal wavy line. Interior, band continued over rim.

Analyzed by M. Kerschner (sample Sard 55).

Dimensions
H. 0.132, Diam. of rim 0.25, Th. of shoulder 0.008–0.009, Th. of neck 0.013–0.015.
Comments
See Also
Bibliography
Author
GGD