• r8-hob-595-10
    HoB 595: Red Bichrome bowl. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Red Bichrome bowl

Date
Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P65.099
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Bowl
Pottery Ware
Lydian Painted - Red Bichrome - Banded
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
Locus
HoB Lydian I - Building B and Vicinity
B-Grid Coordinates
W2 - W3.5 / S99 - S101 *98.5 - 98.25
Findspot
W2-3.5 / S99-101 *98.50-98.25, above floor ⁓ Building B
Description
Five joining fragments of rim, bowl, and base of bowl. Plain and slightly inverted thick rim; deep bowl; plain base. Matt black and red (red paint worn). Exterior, a row of pendent concentric short hooks (each seven brushes) with three horizontal lines below; traces of red paint on mid-body. Interior, traces of red paint below rim.
Dimensions
H. 0.115, Diam. of rim 0.20, Diam. of base 0.066, Th. 0.004–0.007.
Comments
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Author
GGD