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HoB 429: Bichrome amphora (?) . (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Bichrome amphora (?)
- Date
- Context: early to third quarter of 7th c BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P12.135
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Amphora
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Painted - Red Bichrome - Banded
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian II - Building G
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W28 - W31 / S104 - S108 *98.3 - 98
- Findspot
- W28-31 / S104-108 *98.3-98.0
- Description
Red Bichrome. Two joining fragments of shoulder. Matt black, red, and added white. Exterior, on clay surface, pendent concentric hook (six hooks), two short vertical wavy lines to the right; two partially preserved concentric hooks or circles; two horizontal lines; horizontal band painted red; two horizontal lines framing the upper border of a band painted white and a partially preserved horizontal wavy line.
Analyzed by Kealhofer and Grave (Kealhofer, Grave, and Marsh 2013: sample AIA 3667).
- Dimensions
- L. 0116, W. 0.077, Th. 0.005–0.008.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- GGD