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HoB 577: Waveline hydria. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Waveline hydria
- Date
- Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC, Lydian
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 5354
- Museum Inventory No.
- 5354
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P62.208
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Hydria
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Painted - Banded / Waveline
- 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
- Almost intact Waveline hydria. Several joining fragments of rim, neck, shoulder, and handle. Everted and thickened rim; nearly vertical neck; articulated sharp transition at the join between neck and shoulder; vertical strap handle, from shoulder to near mid-neck; two horizontal loop handles rising diagonally at shoulder; plump ovoid body; ring base. Red to black glossy streaky glaze. Exterior, band along and below rim; neck has single horizontal wavy line; horizontal band at the end of neck; upper shoulder, horizontal large arcs overlapping, with diamonds at the juncture of arcs; large loops placed above a horizontal band (at lower shoulder) so that their rounded ends overlap the arc above; two thick horizontal bands, one below handles, the other over base; vertical handle has horizontal lines; loop handles, painted. Interior, band continued from top to below rim.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.41, Diam. of rim 0.23, Diam. of body 0.36, Diam. of base 0.12.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- GGD