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HoB 371: Black on Red stand or base. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Black on Red stand or base
- Date
- Context: last quarter of 8th c BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P68.030
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Stand
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Painted - Black on Red - Patterned
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian III - In Association with Human Remains
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W6.5 - W9 / S90 - S93 *96.3 - 96
- Findspot
- W6.5-9 / S90-93 *96.3-96.0; W6–8 / S90–94 *96.0–95.8; W7 / S92 *95.8; W7–8 / S91–92 *95.7
- Description
Thick-walled conical Black on Red base with flaring foot. Strong colors of both the rich black paint and dark red clay. Seven horizontal lines, unevenly spaced along the base. Within the bottom two registers made by these lines are groups of six vertical lines made with a multiple brush.
Analyzed by Kealhofer and Grave (Kealhofer, Grave, and Marsh 2013: sample AIA 3776).
- Dimensions
- H. 0.245, Diam. of foot 0.33, Diam. at break of neck 0.115, Th. 0.01–0.02.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- AR