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    HoB 729: “Early Fikellura” aryballos. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

“Early Fikellura” aryballos

Date
Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P65.002
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Aryballos
Pottery Ware
"Early Fikellura" Ware
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
Locus
HoB Lydian I - South of Building C
B-Grid Coordinates
W15 - W20 / S115 - S120 *99.2 - 98.9
Findspot
W15-20 / S115-120 *99.20-98.90 ⁓ south of Building C
Description
Narrow neck, rounded transition to body, and single handle stump of “Early Fikellura” aryballos. Dark over white slip. Exterior, horizontal band at the end of neck; partially preserved traces of paint on left, three short and one thicker diagonal line on right; three hanging vertical lines; neck and tail of another bird. Thin reserved band with horizontal thick lines above and below: centrally painted square bars divided by thin vertical short lines.
Dimensions
H. 0.052. Th. 0.003–0.005.
Comments
See Also
Bibliography
Greenewalt 1971b, EF 29.
Author
GGD