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    HoB 615: Black on Red dish. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Black on Red dish

Date
Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P65.116
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Dish
Pottery Ware
Lydian Painted - Black on Red - Banded
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
Locus
HoB Lydian I - Building D and Extension
B-Grid Coordinates
W15 - W20 / S103 - S109 to floor *98.6
Findspot
W15-20 / S103-109 *98.60 ⁓ fourth floor of Building D
Description
Three joining fragments of rim and bowl of dish. Thickened square-shaped rim with one deep groove. Two wide projections with a deep groove are attached at the edge of rim, making them on the same level with rim. One of the attachments bears two pierced holes over the groove; shallow bowl. Matt black over red slip. Exterior not painted. Interior, a single horizontal band over each groove over the rim and the attachments; two groups of horizontal lines (one below rim and the other near center of bowl).
Dimensions
H. 0.026, Diam. of rim 0.20, Diam. of rim with attachments 0.225, Th. 0.004–0.006.
Comments
See Also
Bibliography
Author
GGD