• r8-hob-747-10
    HoB 747: Skyphos. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Skyphos

Date
Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P63.393G
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Skyphos
Pottery Ware
Lydian Painted - Banded / Waveline
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 *99.50-99.20 ⁓ refuse pile
Description
Four joining fragments of rim, body, base, and handle fragment (single stump of one handle preserved) of skyphos. Plain rim, deep bowl, ring base. Red over creamy white slip on the exterior and black on the interior. Exterior, handle stumps, encircled; below handle area three horizontal bands; lower body, two narrow bands; base and above base, streaky. Interior, painted.
Dimensions
H. 0.102, Diam. of base 0.06, Th. 0.004–0.008.
Comments
See Also
Bibliography
Author
GGD