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HoB 289: White Bichrome jar. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
White Bichrome jar
- Date
- Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC, Early Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P64.442
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Jar
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Painted - White Bichrome - Patterned
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian IV - to *96.10
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W21 - W25 / S117.5 - S119 *96.1
- Findspot
- W21-25 / S117.5-119 To *96.10; W5–15 / S115–118 *97.0 floor
- Description
- Several pieces of the shoulder and body of a white Bichrome jar decorated with patterns set radially around the neck: At top, a white band with checkerboard squares. Then, diagonally crosshatched checkerboard and diamond patterns, as well as a trace of what appear to be triangular patterns. Below these, separated by a band of white bordered by black lines, is a row of opposed triangles in black over white paint. And below that (with red slipped bands at each level) is another white band bordered by black lines. This piece is more complicated in its organization than most since the shoulder arrangement is not simple alternation but has a third motif in the pattern. Thick white paint over red slipped background, and black lines and patterns over the white paint.
- Dimensions
- Largest fragment: H. 0.15, W. 0.124, Th. 0.006–0.007.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- AR