• r8-hob-678-10
    HoB 678: Dish. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

    Dish

    Date
    Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC, Lydian
    Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
    P63.100
    Material
    Ceramic
    Object Type
    Pottery
    Pottery Shape
    Dish
    Pottery Ware
    Lydian Painted - Red Bichrome - Banded
    Pottery Attribution
    Site
    Sardis
    Sector
    HoB
    Trench
    HoB
    Locus
    HoB Lydian I - Well Associated with Building F
    B-Grid Coordinates
    E0 / S115 to *98.97
    Findspot
    E0 / S115 To *98.97 ⁓ well associated with Building F
    Description
    Rim and body fragment of dish. Flaring and wide rim; shallow bowl. Dark over creamy white slip inside and out. Exterior, paint poorly preserved, traces of single band along rim and on the transition to bowl. Interior, horizontal lines over rim and below rim. Faint wiggly lines toward the center.
    Dimensions
    H. 0.021, est. Diam. of rim 0.13, Th. 0.004–0.005.
    Comments
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    Author
    GGD