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    HoB 759: Small oinochoe. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Small oinochoe

Date
Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P63.405L
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Oinochoe
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
Several joining pieces of rim, neck, shoulder, body, and base of small oinochoe. Trefoil mouth, nearly vertical sided neck, globular body; low ring base. Red and black paint. Exterior, on shoulder, a row of red petals on a reserved band bordered with two horizontal matt dark lines below; painted red down to above base, with a single matt dark horizontal line.
Dimensions
H. 0.145, Diam. of base 0.068, Th. 0.002–0.007.
Comments
See Also
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Author
GGD