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HoB 427: Black on Red round-mouthed jug. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Black on Red round-mouthed jug
- Date
- Context: early to third quarter of 7th c BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P64.183
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Round-Mouthed Jug
- 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
- W27 - W32 / S115 - S117 *98.6 - 97.85
- Findspot
- W27-32 / S115-117 *98.6-97.85
- Description
- Two joining fragments of neck and body of Black on Red round-mouthed jug. Long, nearly vertical neck; articulated transition from neck to body; elliptically compressed and short body. Matt dark painted on clay surface. Exterior: on the neck, a row of elongated concentric S shapes (two Ss nestled together) with a single horizontal line below; upper part of the body, traces of plain dark paint; possible trace of white band at widest point of pot.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.06, W. 0.067, est. Diam. 0.085, Th. 0.002–0.004.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- GGD