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    HoB 621: Streaky glazed oinochoe. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Streaky glazed oinochoe

Date
Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P65.145
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Oinochoe
Pottery Ware
Lydian Painted - Streaky
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
Locus
HoB Lydian I - Building D and Extension
B-Grid Coordinates
W5 - W8 / S91.5 - S88 *98.6 - 98.4
Findspot
W5-8 / S91.50-88 *98.60-98.40 ⁓ northeast of Building D and east of Building J
Description
Many joining fragments of rim, neck, body and handle of streaky glazed oinochoe. Trefoil mouth; ridge at the end of neck; sagging from below neck towards lower body; vertical, double cylindrical handle from shoulder to rim. Red to black streaky glazed with added matt black paint. Exterior, rim and neck streaky; two horizontal black lines at the join between neck and shoulder. Shoulder has a row of elongated petals in streaky paint over a wide reserved band; handle streaky; three horizontal black lines at the end of shoulder; plain streaky down to lower body, three groups of two horizontal black lines (one on mid-body and two on lower body).
Dimensions
H. with handle 0.24, L. of mouth 0.093, W. of mouth 0.044, Th. 0.003–0.006.
Comments
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Author
GGD