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    HoB 333: Bichrome jar. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Bichrome jar

Date
Context: last quarter of 8th c BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P66.069
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 III - Central Area
B-Grid Coordinates
W7 / S91 *96.5
Findspot
W7 / S91 *96.5
Description

Shoulder fragment of large Bichrome jar with black and white paint on red slip. Buff fabric with pebble inclusions. Oval scar of a vertical band handle. Most of the background of this pot is white. A black band runs along the vessel at the handle attachment, dividing an area of red slip with traces of semicircles painted white from another register of decoration consisting of a series of circles with a smaller circle inside; each of the circles is connected by five groups of six radial lines painted with a multiple brush. The larger circles are then all linked to each other by six lines painted with the same multiple brush. Set in between the circles are much smaller concentric circles with a dot in the center of each. Trace of a black band remains below the register of circles.

A unique design among Sardis finds.

Dimensions
H. 0.11, W. 0.23, Th. 0.21.
Comments
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Author
AR