R8 Cat. HoB 145

Pottery

Ceramic

Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC (Early Lydian)

Fragment of small cup with bottom broken out and the remains of the base of the handle. Reddish-buff micaceous clay; purplish Black on Red decoration. Exterior, band along base just below base of handle.

R8 Cat. HoB 146

Pottery

Ceramic

Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC (Early Lydian)

Fragment of small bowl with straight side and sharp carination. Fine red micaceous clay. Black on Red decoration. Exterior, opposed triangles making a butterfly pattern runs the height of the wall of the cup with a black line above and below. Interio...

R8 Cat. HoB 147

Pottery

Ceramic

Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC (Early Lydian)

Everted rim of cup with slightly tapered lip. Red, micaceous clay. A duller Black on Red. Decoration on exterior consists of a series of opposed triangles, as in a butterfly pattern, bordered top and bottom by a black line at the rim and base of neck...

R8 Cat. HoB 148

Pottery

Ceramic

Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC (Early Lydian)

Everted rim and rounded lip. Reddish-buff micaceous clay. Exterior is painted with a line below the rim, and opposed triangles directly below it. Black paint is of the duller kind.

R8 Cat. HoB 149

Pottery

Ceramic

Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC (Early Lydian)

Simple cup rim. Reddish-buff micaceous clay. Interior and exterior have dark brown band at rim.

R8 Cat. HoB 150

Pottery

Ceramic

Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC (Early Lydian)

Rim fragment of cup. Buff micaceous clay that has been burned. Exterior, two dark bands on rim; below on body, two standing concentric circles. Interior, dark band on rim.

R8 Cat. HoB 151

Pottery

Ceramic

Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC (Early Lydian)

Body fragment of cup. Red micaceous clay. Exterior, small but thick pendent concentric semicircles below a streaky band. Interior, dark brown.

For comparison to Cycadic pottery, see Coldstream, GGP, pl. 52.

R8 Cat. HoB 152

Pottery

Ceramic

Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC (Early Lydian)

Cup fragment. Buff micaceous clay. Exterior and interior: black band at rim.

R8 Cat. HoB 153

Pottery

Ceramic

Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC (Early Lydian)

Cup fragment. Buff clay with some mica. Exterior, band of brown on base of foot. Interior of bowl, streaky brown.

R8 Cat. HoB 154

Pottery

Ceramic

Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC (Early Lydian)

Trefoil rim fragment. Buff micaceous clay. Exterior, dark brown band along rim.

R8 Cat. HoB 155

Pottery

Ceramic

Late Bronze Age (Late Bronze Age)

Rim and upper body of krater. Reddish-buff micaceous clay with a red core. A ledge rim with a few short radial lines. Exterior, a band of orange at rim and a tight fat wavy line below. Interior, orange band at rim. A handle scar on wall.

Penelope Moun...

R8 Cat. HoB 156

Pottery

Ceramic

Late Bronze Age (Late Bronze Age)

Fragments of a large krater. Reddish-buff micaceous clay with a red core. Ledge rim has a reddish band along the length of it. Exterior, a red band below the rim, and a tight fat wavy line at handle height. A handle scar. Interior, a red band continu...

R8 Cat. HoB 157

Pottery

Ceramic

Late Geometric (Early Lydian)

Rim fragment. Buff micaceous clay. Exterior, dark brown band along rim and one further below, between which are groups of vertical wavy lines. Use of multiple brush, painted top to bottom. Exterior and interior are smoothed. Similar decoration to HoB...

R8 Cat. HoB 158

Pottery

Ceramic

Late Geometric (Early Lydian)

Rim fragment. Buff micaceous clay. Exterior, dark brown band along rim and one further below, between which are groups of vertical wavy lines originating alternately from the rim or band below. Multiple brush used here. Interior, dark brown band at r...

R8 Cat. HoB 159

Pottery

Ceramic

Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC (Early Lydian)

Rim and partial handle of a Black on Red krater. Reddish-buff micaceous clay with gray core. Vertical rim with squared lip. Exterior, duller black band below ledge rim; below this, a crosshatched angular meander pattern. Interior plain. Remains of a ...

R8 Cat. HoB 160

Pottery

Ceramic

Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC (Early Lydian)

Three joining fragments of neck and shoulder of jug. Pinkish-buff micaceous clay. Neck probably thrown separately. Break in design suggests a handle. Checkerboard on neck. Three lines encircle the join of neck and shoulder; below, large triangles, ob...

R8 Cat. HoB 161

Pottery

Ceramic

Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC (Early Lydian)

Neck and shoulder fragment of medium-sized jug; orangish-buff micaceous clay with gray core. Brown on Buff decoration. Exterior, on neck checkerboard pattern of alternating reserved and filled squares; on shoulder, two lines, below which are crosshat...

R8 Cat. HoB 162

Pottery

Ceramic

Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC (Early Lydian)

Shoulder to start of neck of small jug. Reddish-buff micaceous clay. Exterior, purplish-black pendent semicircles from a narrow band, and a wavy line between two bands below.

R8 Cat. HoB 163

Pottery

Ceramic

Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC (Early Lydian)

Shoulder and neck fragment of jug. Reddish-buff micaceous fabric. Black on Red decoration. Exterior has standing semicircles, where the artist used a multiple brush but not a compass. Two black lines above and below, and a vertical line at the side. ...

R8 Cat. HoB 164

Pottery

Ceramic

Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC (Early Lydian)

Body and band handle fragment. Reddish-buff micaceous clay. Thick, streaky dark brown band on body of vessel and thinner horizontal lines on lower part of the vertical band handle.

R8 Cat. HoB 165

Pottery

Ceramic

Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC (Early Lydian)

Fragment of body and base of a vertical band handle. Buff clay with gray core. Exterior, streaked dark brown on body and handle. Exterior smoothed.

R8 Cat. HoB 166

Pottery

Ceramic

Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC (Early Lydian)

Shoulder fragment. Red micaceous clay, tan slip. Exterior, red pendent concentric semicircles below thick band.

R8 Cat. HoB 167

Pottery

Ceramic

Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC (Early Lydian)

Five joining and two additional fragments of shoulder and a trace of the neck of an amphora or jug. Reddish/orange on buff. Three horizontal bands preserved on body, and another just below the join to neck.

Mycenaean or sub-Mycenaean, or local imitati...

R8 Cat. HoB 168

Pottery

Ceramic

Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC (Early Lydian)

Lower belly fragment of amphora. Orangish-buff, micaceous clay. Exterior, metopal decoration with sets of vertical lines between bands of Red on Buff. Exterior smoothed.

R8 Cat. HoB 169

Pottery

Ceramic

Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC (Early Lydian)

Handle and base (of an amphora?). Reddish clay with darker red slip. Handle has a wavy line on the exterior and a trace on the upper inner side. Base has a red band above the disk foot. Unslipped on the interior of the base.

Mycenaean or imitation-Myc...