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HoB 749: Bichrome skyphos krater. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Bichrome skyphos krater
- Date
- Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P63.431
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Skyphos Krater
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Painted - Red Bichrome - 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 *99.50-99.20 ⁓ refuse pile
- Description
- Red Bichrome. Two joining fragments of rim, neck, and body of skyphos krater. Slightly everted rim; flaring neck; pronounced transition from neck to body. Red, matt dark, and white. Exterior, painted red over the rim; white painted band along neck: single horizontal dark wavy line with two horizontal dark lines above and below (single line overlapping the red band below); red band; two horizontal dark lines below the red band; upper body, two partially preserved horizontal S loops. Interior, red band below rim.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.071, Diam. of rim 0.27; Th. of body 0.004–0.005.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- GGD