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    HoB 649: Handle attachment (?). (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Handle attachment (?)

Date
Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P63.627
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Handle Attachment?
Pottery Ware
Lydian Painted - Orientalizing
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
Locus
HoB Lydian I - Building E
B-Grid Coordinates
W20 - W23 / S110 - S113 *99.4 - 99.3
Findspot
W20-23 / S110-113 *99.40-99.30 ⁓ Building E
Description
Elongated and slightly curved triangular horn-shaped attachment. Two sides red over white slip; one side, over the rim, painted red. Over the two sides, vertically placed herringbone pattern with a vertical line on the right and left; and with three horizontal parallel lines at both short ends, above and below; underside and top ridges as well as the beginning of rim are painted red.
Dimensions
H. 0.3, L. 0.085, W. 0.03.
Comments
See Also
Bibliography
Author
GGD