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HoB 660: Bichrome amphora. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Bichrome amphora
- Date
- Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P65.065
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Amphora
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Painted - Red Bichrome - Banded, Lydian Painted - Orientalizing
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian I - Building F
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W14 - W15 / S110.5 - S115 *98.96
- Findspot
- W14-15 / S110.5-115 *98.96 floor ⁓ Building F
- Description
- White Bichrome. Seven joining fragments of shoulder and belly of amphora. Matt black over white slip. Wide band, a row of birds to right with outlined and reserved bodies; three horizontal lines over a red coated band; groups of six vertical wavy lines over a white band with a single horizontal line above and below.
- Dimensions
- L. 0.105, W. 0.25, Th. 0.006–0.008.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- GGD