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Black on Red stemmed dish

Date
Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P63.405P
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Stemmed Dish
Pottery Ware
Lydian Painted - Black on Red - Banded
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
Locus
HoB Lydian I - Refuse Piles
B-Grid Coordinates
W11 - W13 / S103 - S104 *99.5 - 99.2
Findspot
W11-13 / S103-104 *99.50-99.30 ⁓ refuse pile
Description
Black on Red. Rim, body, center of bowl, stem, and base of stemmed dish. Slightly inverted rim, shallow bowl. Matt dark and red paint. Exterior, rim plain painted; single horizontal dark line on mid-stem; mid-stem and base painted red. Interior, two sets of parallel horizontal lines (one below rim, the other near mid-bowl) and concentric spiral dark lines encircling central bowl.
Dimensions
H. 0.06, Diam. of rim 0.26, Diam. of base 0.1, Th. of lower body 0.002–0.004.
Comments
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Author
GGD