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HoB 345: Imported Brown on Buff large metopal deep bowl. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Imported Brown on Buff large metopal deep bowl
- Date
- Context: last quarter of 8th c BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P65.271
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Bowl
- Pottery Ware
- Non-Local?
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian III - Central Area
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W0 - W5 / S101 - S103 *97.4
- Findspot
- W0-5 / S101-103 *97.4
- Description
- Brown on Buff bowl. Simple rim with rounded lip. Exterior of bowl has a series of ten painted vertical lines that alternate with five vertical wavy lines. These lines are bordered at the lower side by three thicker horizontal bands that encircle the body. Two applied decorative “handles” (of three?) were made of at least two vertical applied cylinders, stuck together and flattened; traces of a third at the break. Probably there were originally four of these cylinders on the false handles (cf. HoB 352). A raised boss near the rim, directly adjacent to a series of vertical lines. The interior of the vessel is painted in red bands with a particularly wide band at the rim that carries over to the exterior rim. There is a second painted band below. Vessel bears traces of burning. Interior and exterior are smoothed. The color of the clay is not typically Lydian.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.06, est. Diam. 0.25–26, Th. 0.005, Diam. of boss 0.015.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- AR