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HoB 369: Round-mouthed Bichrome jug. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Round-mouthed Bichrome jug
- Date
- Context: last quarter of 8th c BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P68.006
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Round-Mouthed Jug
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Painted - White Bichrome - Patterned
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian III - In Association with Human Remains
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W6 / S91 *96
- Findspot
- W6 / S91 *96.1
- Description
- Round-mouthed Bichrome jug with a wide mouth and high narrow strap handle. Two black lines below rim and another at bottom of high neck. The white band on the sharply carinated shallow body is decorated with alternating concentric circles in red with a central dot, and vertical groups of four black lines. Lower body undecorated, but exterior was burnished. Handle had panels of parallel vertical lines alternating with plain red slip. A black line painted along the two edges of the handle. Interior, traces of small pendent concentric semicircles below rim. Foot was broken off and smoothed for continued use after breakage. A Phrygian shape.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.09, H. with handle 0.145, Diam. of rim 0.12, Th. 0.003.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Gürtekin-Demir 2014, no. 14.
- Author
- AR