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HoB 625: Bichrome jar. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Bichrome jar
- Date
- Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P12.163
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Amphora, Hydria
- 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
- W14 - W16 / S103 - S105 to *98 - 97
- Findspot
- W14-16 / S103-105 To *98.00-97.00; W15–17 / S102–105 *98.30–98.05; W18–20 / S101–104 *99.20–99.00 ⁓ Building D
- Description
- Red Bichrome. Six joining fragments of rim and body of storage jar. Everted and thickened rim; sharp flange on the exterior; nearly vertical walls. Matt black, red, and white. Exterior, plain red to dark streaky from rim to flange with horizontal black lines above and below; over white slip, pendent concentric hooks; two horizontal black lines; painted red. Interior, below rim, plain red to dark streaky and a horizontal black line below. On the edge of rim, diagonal lines over white slip with alternating red and black colors.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.172, Diam. of rim 0.50, Th. 0.009–0.011.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- GGD