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    HoB 761: 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.
P63.405M
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
Shoulder, body, base, and handle fragment of small oinochoe. Ovoid body; plain base; vertical, strap handle possibly from rim (not preserved) to shoulder. Red and matt dark paint. Exterior, single horizontal dark line on the transition from neck to shoulder; shoulder, reserved, group of seven red petals, semicircular band under handle; vertical red band near handle; wide red band down to lower body: four horizontal dark lines (three overlapping the wide red band) on the upper body, below handle, a single dark horizontal line near center of band and lower frame of the band.
Dimensions
H. 0.123, H. with handle 0.173, Diam. of base 0.061, Th. 0.002–0.006.
Comments
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Author
GGD