• r8-hob-576-10
    HoB 576: Wild Goat style oinochoe. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Wild Goat style oinochoe

Date
Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P62.099
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Oinochoe
Pottery Ware
Lydian Painted - Orientalizing
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
Locus
HoB Lydian I - Building A
B-Grid Coordinates
E5 / S105 - S110 to *99.4
Findspot
E5 / S105-110 To *99.40 ⁓ inside Building A
Description
Rim and rotelle (of handle) of Wild Goat style oinochoe. Trefoil mouth. Decoration reddish-black glaze with a metallic sheen over creamy slip on the exterior. Painted on rim and behind the rotelle; partially preserved horizontal brush stroke. Circular face of rotelle has a dot in the center encircled by other dots. Rim painted on interior.
Dimensions
L. 0.081, W. 0.042, Th. 0.004–0.006.
Comments
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Author
GGD