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HoB 574: Bichrome skyphos. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Bichrome skyphos
- Date
- Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P62.159
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Skyphos
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Painted - Red Bichrome - Banded
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian I - Building A
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E5 / S105 *98.9
- Findspot
- E5 / S105 *98.90, below the second floor level *99.15 ⁓ inside Building A
- Description
- Red Bichrome. Eight joining and nonjoining fragments of rim, bowl, base, and stump of single handle of skyphos. Plain rim; deep bowl; low conical foot. Exterior and interior, matt black with added white color over slightly streaky red slip. Exterior, single horizontal dark line over and below rim; three triple lines (a single white horizontal line with a dark line above and below) placed below handle, at mid-bowl and lower body. Interior, four triple lines (a single white horizontal line with a dark line above and below), placed below rim, at upper body, and around the center of bowl.
- Dimensions
- Est. h. 0.12–0.13, Diam. of rim 0.14, Diam. of base 0.06, Th. 0.004–0.006.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- GGD