• r8-hob-346-10
    HoB 346: Imported Geometric painted bowl. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Imported Geometric painted bowl

Date
Third quarter of the 8th c BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P62.251
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Bowl
Pottery Ware
East Greek Geometric
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
Locus
HoB Lydian III - Central Area
B-Grid Coordinates
E3 / S97 *97.2
Findspot
E3 / S97 *97.20
Description

Rim sherd of bowl (or skyphos?) with nicked rim. Exterior painted with black on a buff surface. Scheme shows three “metope” lines at left side; in center, a vertical rectangle filled with a network of lozenges with smaller lozenges inside; then an adjacent rectangle subdivided into an upper register of animals (birds? horses?) and a lower register of false meanders. Single black line around rim. Interior black streaked.

Ernst Langlotz (personal communication to C. H. Greenewalt, jr., August 29, 1970) thought there were similar pieces in Cos. M. Kerschner identified this as the standard fabric of Teos, and dated it in the third quarter of the eighth century (personal communication, Sardis, July 1–2, 2016).

Dimensions
H. 0.05, Diam. 0.14, Th. 0.03.
Comments
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Author
AR