• r8-hob-533-10
    HoB 533: 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.
P58.569
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
Four joining fragments of rim and neck of Waveline hydria. Everted and thickened rim; nearly vertical neck; articulated sharp transition at the join between neck and shoulder; vertical strap handle (scar preserved). Red to black streaky glaze. Exterior, band along rim. Neck has a single wavy line; horizontal band at the join between neck and shoulder. Interior, band continued over rim.
Dimensions
H. 0.127, Diam. of rim 0.285, Th. 0.011–0.014; H. 0.325, Diam. of rim 223, Diam. of body 0.35, Diam. of base 0.102.
Comments
See Also
Bibliography
Hanfmann, “Sardis 1958,” p. 28.
Author
GGD