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HoB 639: Chian amphora. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Chian amphora
- Date
- Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P15.054
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Transport Amphora
- Pottery Ware
- East Greek - Chian
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian I - Building D and Extension, HoB Lydian I - South of Building C, HoB Lydian II - Building G
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W23 - W25 / S100 - S104 *98.5 - 98.1
- Findspot
W23-25 / S100-104 *98.50-98.10
Joining and not joining fragments also from W13–15 / S113–119 *99.90–99.50; W36 / S115 To *98.80; W34–35 / S114 *98.50 floor (Room C) ⁓ northern part of Building D
- Description
- Many joining and nonjoining fragments of rim, neck, shoulder, body, and single handle of Chian amphora. One-piece amphora. Flaring, thick echinus rim; nearly straight-sided neck; wide strap handle. Red over creamy white slip. Painted on rim and below rim; thick horizontal band at the transition to neck; handle projection, encircled with thick band; over the handle, a thick vertical band; shoulder, traces of horizontal S loop; body: single vertical band overlapping two horizontal bands. Over the handle, a potter’s mark incised after firing. Probably last quarter of the seventh century.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.12, Diam. of rim 0.17, Th. 0.007.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- GGD