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HoB 620: Bichrome oinochoe. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Bichrome oinochoe
- Date
- Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P65.043
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Oinochoe
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Painted - Red Bichrome - Banded
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian I - Building D and Extension
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W15 - W20 / S102 - S106 floor *98.8
- Findspot
- W15-20 / S102-106 *98.80 floor ⁓ third floor of Building D
- Description
- Red Bichrome. Several joining fragments of neck, shoulder, body and handle (stump preserved) of oinochoe. Vertical neck; sharp transition to shoulder; spherical body; vertical strap handle. Matt black, red to brown and added white over clay surface. Exterior, neck, plain red to brown painted; single horizontal line above shoulder. Shoulder, row of pendent concentric hooks (each seven hooks) on a reserved red to brown band with black horizontal line above and below; white band and two black lines above and below; wide red to brown band with black line above and below; wide white band and a red to brown line above.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.15, Diam. of body 0.28, Th. 0.005–0.009.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- GGD