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HoB 179: Large Black on Red Lydian Geometric biconical pot stand, or foot of a large krater. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Large Black on Red Lydian Geometric biconical pot stand, or foot of a large krater
- Date
- Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC, Early Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P66.066
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Stand, Krater
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Painted - Black on Red - Patterned
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian IV - Deep Sounding C
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E3 - E5 / S104 - S106 *96.05 - 95.68
- Findspot
- E3-5 / S104-106 *96.05-95.68; E1–W5 / S106–109 To *96.2.
- Description
Four joining fragments plus an additional small fragment of a Lydian biconical pot stand or foot of large krater. Micaceous body with considerable mineral inclusions in body. Core is gray.
Intense black geometric ornament on strong red body, decorated in registers: from base, two lines and then large square meanders alternating with nested diamond-shaped designs. Above that, separated by two horizontal lines, a series of concentric circles, one of which has a wider painted circle than the others. Then, two more horizontal lines separate two tiers of opposed triangles. Exterior finely smoothed. Interior plain.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.18, Diam. of foot 0.30, Th. 0.01.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Hanfmann and Mierse, SPRT, fig. 36; Hanfmann, "Sardis 1966," fig. 8 (upside down).
- Author
- AR