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HoB 557: Wild Goat style oinochoe. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Wild Goat style oinochoe
- Date
- Ca. 650-600 BC., Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P59.377
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Oinochoe
- Pottery Ware
- East Greek - Orientalizing
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian I - Lydian Room
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E10 / S60 ca. *97.64 - 97
- Findspot
- E5-10 / S55-60 *97.64-97.00 ⁓ west of Lydian Room, earlier level
- Description
- Wild Goat style (North Ionian). Three fragments, two joining, of mouth, neck, and shoulder. Trefoil mouth; articulated transition from neck to shoulder. Red to dark over diluted creamy white slip. Painted from rim to upper neck. Neck has a reserved band, with a single horizontal line above and below, and a centrally dotted broken guilloche; shoulder band, from left to right, upper body of a dog to right; pendent filling ornament (three adjacent tongues, concentric semicircles surrounded by dots) above the dog; tail of a goat (?); filling ornament (rosette: central circle with four surrounding Ts).
- Dimensions
- H. 0.09, W. 0.115, Th. 0.004–0.006.
- Comments
- Hanfmann dated the piece to ca. 625–600; N. Aytaçlar dates to 650–625 B.C. (personal communication, Sardis, July 1–2, 2016). Hanfmann, “Sardis 1959,” p. 30, fig. 16.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- GGD