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HoB 587: Architectural terracotta. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Architectural terracotta
- Date
- Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- T61.018
- Material
- Terracotta
- Object Type
- Architectural Terracotta
- Architectural Terracotta Type
- Frieze
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian I - Building B
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W9 / S99 to *99.6
- Findspot
- W9 / S99 *99.60
- Description
Terracotta sima (?) fragment. Partially preserved. Decoration in relief. Painted black and red. Above, a meander pattern on a raised border; below, a triple petalled palmette (petals painted red and dark alternately) placed on the upper junction of red volutes.
This item was actually found in the vicinity of Building B, not Building A.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.126, W. 0.152, Th. 0.023–039.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Ramage, Sardis M5, cat. no. 45.
- Author
- GGD