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HoB 616: Wild Goat style dish. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Wild Goat style dish
- Date
- Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P65.073
- 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
- W15 - W20 / S105 - S110 *99 - 98.8
- Findspot
- W15-20 / S105-110 *99.0-98.80 ⁓ third floor of Building D
- Description
- Two joining body sherds of Sardis Wild Goat style (photograph shows only one of the sherds). Matt black and added red over fine and thick white slip. Exterior, partially preserved two rays, alternately black outlined and painted red and black in silhouette. Interior, wing (?) is outlined in black and scaled with red dots; to the right of the pattern, radially arranged, narrow petal-like areas, each outlined in black and filled in with alternating red and black, possibly forming pin feathers of the wing. The decoration is also attested on a dish from Sardis depicting a winged Potnia Theron (Greenewalt 1970, no. 16).
- Dimensions
- L. 0.065, W. 0.053, Th. 0.007.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- GGD