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    HoB 656: Large stemmed dish. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Large stemmed dish

Date
Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P63.606a
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Stemmed Dish
Pottery Ware
Lydian Painted - White Bichrome - Patterned
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
Locus
HoB Area Around Building F and Earlier Levels
B-Grid Coordinates
W15 - W13 / S101 - S103 *98.7 - 98.3
Findspot

W13-15 / S101-103 *98.70-98.30; W2–7 / S90–95 *98.70–98.10;

uninventoried fragments from W2–7 / S101–105 *98.70–98.40; W13–15 / S101–13 *98.70–98.30; W2–7 / S105–120 *97.90–97.50; W5–8 / S102–110 *99.30–99.00; W20–23 / S105–110 *99.00–98.70; E0–W4 / S105–107 *99.20–98.90; W5–20 / S97–105 *99.20;

fragments found in 1963, 1965 and 1968 scattered in areas between W2–23 / S101–120 *99.30–97.50. Associated with floor ⁓ area between Buildings D, A, and F

Description
Many joining and nonjoining fragments of rim and body of stemmed dish. Flaring rim; deep bowl. Matt black and added red over white slip. Edge of rim, groups of six short radial lines. Interior, over rim, pendent and standing concentric semicircles (each made with five brushes) with a single line above and below; below rim, single red band; upper bowl, band with a single horizontal line above and below: pendent and standing concentric semicircles (each five semicircles).
Dimensions
H. 0.045, Diam. of rim 0.32, Th. 0.009–0.015.
Comments
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Author
GGD