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HoB 704: Waveline hydria neck. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Waveline hydria neck
- Date
- Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P14.053
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Hydria Neck
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Painted - Banded / Waveline
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian I - Pot Hoard A at *99.05
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W19 / S99 *99.05
- Findspot
- W19 / S99 *99.05, south of Building C (“Hoard A”)
- Description
- Five joining fragments of rim and neck of Waveline hydria. Everted and thickened rim; nearly vertical neck; articulated sharp transition at the join between neck and shoulder; vertical strap handle (handle stump preserved). Black glaze over clay surface. Exterior, band along and below rim; neck, single horizontal wavy line; horizontal band at the end of neck. Interior, band along and below rim. Other parts of the vessel clearly had been sheared off.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.105, Diam. of rim 0.27, Th. of shoulder 0.006–0.007.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- GGD