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HoB 332: Black on Red “loose style” jug. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Black on Red “loose style” jug
- Date
- Context: last quarter of 8th c BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P65.220
- 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 III - Central Area
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W1 / S102 *97.4
- Findspot
- W1 / S102 *97.40
- Description
- Globular jug with flat base, much worn. One vertical band handle. Two black bands around shoulder of jug between which are crosshatched squares. Reserved spaces between squares are triangular. Another register of two bands with crosshatched squares is below. The final register, below the handle, consists of a band with a series of hand-drawn pendent concentric semicircles. This last register of decoration is not consistently level around the circumference of the jug. Discolored from burning.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.12, Diam. of neck 0.045, Diam. of body 0.15, Diam. of base 0.075, W. of handle 0.025.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- AR