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    HoB 619: Ephesianizing lebes. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Ephesianizing lebes

Date
Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P65.038
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Lebes
Pottery Ware
Lydian Painted - Ephesianizing
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
Locus
HoB Lydian I - Building D and Extension
B-Grid Coordinates
W15 - W20 / S100 - S105 floor *98.9
Findspot
W15-20 / S100-105 To *98.90 ⁓ near third floor of Building D
Description
Ephesianizing ware. Rim and body fragment of lebes. Flaring triangular rim. Matt black and red over a fine, thick white slip. Exterior, horizontal red band; narrow band with short dogtooth pattern, with a line above and below; a broad area partitioned into adjacent large squares each with a different pattern: from upper left to right, black crosshatched, red crisscross with nesting triangles in between stalks, black crisscross with red dots between stalks; from lower left to right: red crisscross with nesting triangles in between stalks. Interior, thick red band below rim.
Dimensions
H. 0.063, Th. 0.009–0.012.
Comments
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Author
GGD