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HoB 455: Large streaky skyphos. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Large streaky skyphos
- Date
- Context: early to third quarter of 7th c BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P12.149
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Skyphos
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Painted - Streaky
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian II - Building L
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W36 - W38 / S91 - S93 above floor *100 - 99
- Findspot
- W36-38 / S91-93 *100.0-99.0 gravel layer, above floor level
- Description
- Rim and bowl fragment. Plain rim. Dark red to black streaky glazed with metallic sheen and added white. Exterior and interior, plain streaky overall. Exterior, single white dot-rosette below rim; upper body, three horizontal white bands; a purple band above and below the three white bands; two horizontal white bands lower down. Interior, two white horizontal bands, one at upper body and the other at lower body.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.14, Diam. of rim ca. 0.23, Th. 0.005–0.007.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- GGD