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    HoB 633: Black on Red stemmed dish. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Black on Red stemmed dish

Date
Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P63.581
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Stemmed Dish
Pottery Ware
Lydian Painted - Black on Red - Patterned
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
Locus
HoB Lydian I - Building D and Extension
B-Grid Coordinates
W13 - W17 / S99 - S100 *98.9 - 98.5
Findspot
W13-17 / S99-100 *98.90-98.50; W12–14 / S100–102 *97.90–97.50; W15–20 / S95–100 *98.90 ⁓ northern part of Building D
Description
Anatolian Black on Red (not a Sardian product). Eleven joining and nonjoining fragments of bowl and the beginning of stem. Shallow bowl. Matt black over red slip. Exterior, four sets of horizontal lines with a single thicker line above and below. Interior, narrow band of a simple hook meander with a horizontal line above and below; narrow band of broken running S with, again, a horizontal line above and below; narrow band of a simple hook meander with a horizontal line above and below; center of bowl, leaf rosette (each leaf outlined and painted), and dotted triangular areas in between the leaves.
Dimensions
H. ca. 0.035, Th. 0.011–0.013.
Comments
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Author
GGD