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HoB 426: Ephesian ware dish. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Ephesian ware dish
- Date
- Context: early to third quarter of 7th c BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P68.129
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Stemmed Dish
- Pottery Ware
- Ephesian Ware
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian II - Building G
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W31 - W35 / S107 - S114 floor *98.5
- Findspot
- W31-35 / S107-114 *98.5 floor ⁓ in the middle of Building G
- Description
- Two joining fragments of body of Ephesian ware. Matt dark paint and additional red glaze over white slip on the interior. Paint badly worn. Exterior, two horizontal black lines and a band with ladder pattern over red slip, triangles in alternate red and black colors over white slip. Interior, single horizontal line; a band with a single line above and below: a ladder pattern on a red coat over slip; a band with a single line above and below: square bars divided by narrow vertical bands of ladder pattern, bars alternately filled in with red inner squares; a horizontal band with a single line above and below: ladder pattern on a red coat over slip; central part of bowl with a horizontal line above: from left to right, large square with narrow ladder pattern and partitioned into a large diamond (with a red inner diamond), also with narrow ladder pattern, and triangles painted red on the corners; vertical band of meander pattern.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.059, W. 0.064, Th. 0.006.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Greenewalt 1973, no. 20.
- Author
- GGD