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HoB 556: Wild Goat style column krater. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Wild Goat style column krater
- Date
- Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC, Lydian
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum
- Museum Inventory No.
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P59.500
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Column Krater
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Painted - Orientalizing
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian I - Lydian Room
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W10 / S70 ca. *98
- Findspot
- W10 / S70 *98.00 ⁓ west of Lydian Room
- Description
- Wild Goat style (could be local Lydian). Eleven fragments, some joining, of rim, neck, shoulder, body, and handle of column krater. Flaring rim; slightly outward curved sides at neck; single loop handle rising vertically and joined to the rim with a strut. Dark painted over a white slip. Ledge rim has circles with a large central dot alternating with five radial strokes. Exterior, on each side of the handle two vertical lines; over the handle, short vertical brush strokes. Neck, partially preserved petals of a palmette rosette. On the shoulder, a wide reserved panel with three large palmette flowers (one pendent, the second standing over the horizontal line below, the last set vertically), and filling ornament of a hooked swastika and cross with a single dot in each quarter between palmette rosettes; a single painted band with a meander bordered with a line above and below, and each motif separated by two short vertical lines; a single painted horizontal band. Interior, plain dark painted from below rim to underside of shoulder.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.05, Diam. of rim 0.24, Th. 0.006.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Hanfmann, “Sardis 1959,” p. 30, fig. 15.
- Author
- GGD