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HoB 668: Terracotta female figurine. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Terracotta female figurine
- Date
- Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- T64.009
- Material
- Terracotta
- Object Type
- Figural Terracotta
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Area Around Building B and Earlier Levels, HoB Area Around Building F and Earlier Levels
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W18 - W20 / S119 - S117 *99.7 - 99.5
- Findspot
- W9 / S99 *98.20; W18–20 / S117–119 *99.70–99.50 ⁓ west of Building F
- Description
- Two joining fragments of upper torso of female. Breasts, left upper shoulder, belly to upper chest preserved. Hollow and wheel made. Back of the figurine not preserved. Dark over creamy white slip. Three horizontal bands, from top to bottom: (1) left, partially preserved dotted vertical thin bands; right (near left shoulder), horizontally hatched rectangle with three dotted bands on the three sides; (2) along breast, from top to bottom, a row of centrally dotted pendent three-quarter circles; a row of dots on the left and right sides of each breast; crisscrossed diamond net in between and possibly over the breasts (paint worn); a row of meanders on each side of breasts; (3) pendent and standing crisscrossed triangles forming a zigzag; over the back side of left shoulder, partially preserved hatched areas.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.069, W. 0.0843, Th. 0.006–0.012.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- GGD