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HoB 612: Lydian Orientalizing dish. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Lydian Orientalizing dish
- Date
- Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P68.024
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Dish
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Painted - Orientalizing
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian I - Building D and Extension
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W10 - W15 / S106 - S110 floor *98.7 - 98.3
- Findspot
- W10-15 / S106-110 *98.7-98.30 floor ⁓ area between Buildings D and F
- Description
- Dish with wide, flaring rim, single horizontal groove above and below shield-shaped rim; very shallow bowl, ring base. Red over creamy white slip. Exterior, two horizontal bands below rim, mid-bowl and above base; base painted. Interior, rim plate: metopal band, divided by three vertical lines, circle and dot-rosette in each metope; transition from rim to bowl, a single horizontal band. In center, a single band encircling central pattern of a five-pointed star with a small cross between each point. Clear signs of burning.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.03, Diam. of rim 0.17, Diam. of base 0.054, Th. 0.004–0.005.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- GGD