The Archaeological Exploration of Sardis

Tanım: Myrina type amphora. Many joining fragments of rim, body, and handle. Flaring square rim; nearly vertical neck; articulated transition at the join between neck and shoulder; spherical body; centrally grooved basket handle set on shoulder (single handle preserved). Matt black and red to dark streaky on fine thick white slip. Exterior, painted on rim; edge of rim white slipped. Neck has four horizontal bands of centrally dotted metopes divided by twelve short vertical lines, each band with a single horizontal line above and below, and separated by a horizontal red-black streaky band; a single dark line over the lowest streaky band at the transition from neck to shoulder. Shoulder: band of lotus “flower and bud” chain and filling ornament of standing triangle with a drop at top, and star-rosette; handle is plain streaky. Belly is streaky, with a dark line above and three dark lines below. Lower body, a row of concentric hooks over white slip.
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