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HoB 379: Black on Red stemmed dish. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Black on Red stemmed dish
- Date
- Context: last quarter of 8th c BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P70.018
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Stemmed Dish
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Painted - Black on Red - Patterned
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian III - South Side
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W8 - W10 / S113 - S117 floor *97
- Findspot
- W8-10 / S113-117 *97.0 floor
- Description
- Black on Red stemmed dish with simple rounded rim. Thick clay tapers toward stemmed disk foot. Interior gray (discolored) with black band at rim; concentric semicircles hang from this band. At mid-bowl a central line with a series of offset concentric semicircles that give the impression of a wave pattern undulating around that line. In center of bowl are concentric circles. Exterior, a narrow band below rim with pendent concentric semicircles. Streaked black to brown, less paint around base. Not whole, but many fragments join. Cf. HoB 325.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.09, est. Diam. of rim 0.21–0.215, Diam. of foot 0.08, H. of foot 0.038, Th. 0.003.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- AR