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HoB 167: Mycenaean (?) Red on Buff amphora or jug. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Mycenaean (?) Red on Buff amphora or jug
- Date
- Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC, Early Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P16.026
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Amphora, Jug
- Pottery Ware
- Mycenaean?
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian IV - Deep Sounding C
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E1 - W2 / S106 - S108.5 *95 - 94.8
- Findspot
- E1-W2 / S106-108.5 *95.0-94.8
- Description
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 imitation. Penelope Mountjoy (2016) thought it could be Mycenaean.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.124, W. 0.20, Th. 0.008.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- AR