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HoB 624: Bichrome Waveline amphora. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Bichrome Waveline amphora
- Date
- Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P65.075
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Amphora
- 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
- W11.5 / S105 *98.5
- Findspot
- W11.5 / S105 *98.50 ⁓ southeastern side of Building D
- Description
- Ten joining fragments of rim, neck, shoulder, body, and handle (single handle preserved) of Bichrome Waveline amphora. Everted and thickened square rim; nearly vertical, long neck; ovoid body; vertical strap handle. Red to black, and added white. Exterior, from top to bottom, edge of rim plain red to dark painted; single horizontal red to dark band at the transition from rim to neck; upper neck, horizontal wavy line over a white band; red to black horizontal band at the end of neck; shoulder, red to black horizontal S curve; three horizontal narrow bands; horizontal wave line over white band; three horizontal bands; two dark horizontal bands; elongated crisscross on handle. Interior, over rim, a row of groups of seven white short vertical lines over red to black surface; rim and below rim, red to black.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.31, Diam. of rim 0.22, W. of handle 0.043.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- GGD