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    HoB 370: Large Bichrome stand. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Large Bichrome stand

Date
Context: last quarter of 8th c BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P68.007
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Stand
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
W7 - W8 / S90 - S92 *96.1
Findspot
W7-8 / S90-92 *96.1
Description
Thick-walled base with flaring foot that transitions into a cylindrical neck. Painted on exterior with red and black paint on a white ground. On the cylindrical neck, outlined in black: vertical rectangles filled with diamonds made by diagonal intersecting lines in rows of white and red; another of white and red checkerboard; another with a large square with smaller squares of checkerboard alternating with reserved white; a rectangle filled with diamonds, and a rectangle filled with checkerboard. At the base of the neck, a raised ridge with a red band surrounded by two black bands. The flaring foot has two registers of decoration: the upper is decorated with unevenly spaced outlines of circles with a dot at the center. On the lower register, red upside-down triangles outlined in black, which together make a zigzag, rest upon a black band.
Dimensions
H. 0.13, Diam. of foot 0.20, Diam. of stand at upper break 0.10, Th. 0.01.
Comments
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Author
AR