• r8-hob-391-10
    HoB 391: Brown on Buff plate. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Brown on Buff plate

Date
Context: last quarter of 8th c BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P14.037
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Dish
Pottery Ware
Lydian Painted - Brown on Buff
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
Locus
HoB Lydian III - Deep Sounding C and Vicinity
B-Grid Coordinates
W3 - W5 / S98 - S100 to *96.8
Findspot
W3-5 / S98-100 To *96.8
Description
Brown on Buff plate with wide ledge rim. Orangish buff with some mica. Pattern of opposing triangles between brown bands, and below, two brown bands, one thick, one thin, with pendent concentric semicircles. Interior smoothed but worn.
Dimensions
Diam. 0.030, Th. 0.0075.
Comments
See Also
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Author
AR