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    HoB 766: Miniature hydria . (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Miniature hydria

Date
Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P63.429
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Small Jar
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, and handle fragment of miniature hydria. Ovoid body; horizontal loop handle. Dark paint and added white and red colors. Exterior, reserved on top of shoulder; shoulder and handle painted dark with a single horizontal white band; at the level of handle, reserved band on mid-body; lower part of the body painted dark with a horizontal red band above.
Dimensions
H. 0.045, Th. 0.003–0.004.
Comments
See Also
Bibliography
Author
GGD