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    HoB 425: Black on Red stemmed dish. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Black on Red stemmed dish

Date
Context: early to third quarter of 7th c BC, Lydian
Museum
Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 7449
Museum Inventory No.
7449
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P68.159
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 II - Building G
B-Grid Coordinates
W34 / S114 floor *98.5
Findspot
W34 / S114 *98.5 floor ⁓ beside the wall to the east of the stone foundation in Building G (found with an iron sheath in it)
Description
Four joining fragments of Black on Red stemmed dish. Small parts of rim, stem, and base missing. Plain rounded rim. Matt dark over red clay surface. Exterior, single band along rim. Interior, from top to bottom, below rim: in a wide band with a single line above and below, groups of five parallel vertical wavy lines; on the central area of bowl with a single horizontal line above, groups of five parallel vertical wavy lines, horizontally arranged with a central single group of five parallel vertical wavy lines. Traces of the corrosion left by the iron sheath (HoB 438) found inside it.
Dimensions
H. 0.07, Diam. of rim 0.28, Th. 0.007.
Comments
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Author
GGD