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HoB 584: Wild Goat style oinochoe. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Wild Goat style oinochoe
- Date
- Late 7th c BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P60.504
- 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 - Building A
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E0 - E5 / S105 to *99.4 - 99.3
- Findspot
- E0-5 / S105 To *99.40-99.30 ⁓ discovered within the upper filling of walls; inside Building A
- Description
Wild Goat style (North Ionian). Shoulder fragment of oinochoe; ridge at the transition from neck to shoulder. Black and added red over white slip. Exterior, single band on the ridge; filling ornament (pendent concentric semicircle), up-turned tail of lion to right (lion not preserved); filling ornament (dot-rosette) inside the loop of tail; lion to right (tail, upper body, rump, part of hind legs, and one foreleg preserved) with its tail meeting with the tail of the other lion. A circle with a dot below the join of tails; lion outlined in incision; added red color on the lower head, mid-body, and one hind leg; filling ornament (dot-rosette) inside the loop of tail.
Late seventh century, according to N. Aytaçlar (personal communication, Sardis, July 2016).
- Dimensions
- L. 0.053, W. 0.075, Th. 0.004–0.007.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- GGD