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    HoB 380: Black on Red bowl. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Black on Red bowl

Date
Context: last quarter of 8th c BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P64.358
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
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
W24 - W25 / S118 - S119 *97 - 96.7
Findspot
W24-25 / S118-119 *97.0-96.7
Description
Black on Red rim of a shallow bowl. Top of rim painted black. Pendent concentric semicircles with a dot in the center on exterior. Interior, black band below rim, and sets of vertical wavy lines painted with a multiple brush between that band and another one closer to the center; a trace of additional decoration below that. Both interior and exterior have a polished surface.
Dimensions
H. 0.05, Diam. 0.22, Th. 0.007.
Comments
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Author
AR