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HoB 249: Black on Red jug. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Black on Red jug
- Date
- Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC, Early Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P12.046
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Jug
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Painted - Black on Red - Patterned
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian IV - Deep Sounding B
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E5 - E10 / S95 *95.4 - 95
- Findspot
- E5-10 / S95 *95.40-95.0
- Description
- Fragment of shoulder and neck of a painted round-mouthed jug. Black and dark brown on red thin-walled jug. Broad dark brown line bordered by two thinner black lines at the juncture of the shoulder and neck of the jug. From the lower black band is a series of pendent semicircles with a dot at the center. Below semicircles is a darker line (made darker by red over black), bordered by two lighter ones of the same width.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.042, W. 0.0422, L. 0.0425, Th. 0.004.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- AR