• r8-hob-334-10
    HoB 334: Bichrome jar with circle designs. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Bichrome jar with circle designs

Date
Context: last quarter of 8th c BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P13.021
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
W9 - W14 / S94 - S100 *97.4 - 97.1
Findspot
W9-14 / S94-100 *97.4-97.1
Description
Black on white slip on thick-walled fragment with red slip. Large circles with curved lines within. Two large black circles with two parallel curved lines (partial semicircles) facing in one direction, and presumably two facing in the other direction (only one preserved). Smaller concentric circles with a central dot between the large ones. Compare to a fragment from PC by the same painter, PC 29.
Dimensions
H. 0.052, W. 0.075.
Comments
See Also
Bibliography
See Ramage 2018, p. 240 and fig. 13.
Author
AR