• r8-hob-398-10
    HoB 398: Brown on Buff jug. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Brown on Buff jug

Date
Context: last quarter of 8th c BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P13.203
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Jug
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
E0 - E3 / S105 - S106 *97 - 96.7
Findspot
E0-3 / S105-106 *97-96.7 ⁓ Deep Sounding C
Description
Body fragment of jug with Brown on Buff decoration. Orangish-buff micaceous clay. Exterior, metopal decoration of alternating concentric circles and groups of five vertical lines. Metopal reserved band has a brown band above and three thinner lines below.
Dimensions
H. 0.077, W. 0.068, Th. 0.006.
Comments
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Author
AR