• r8-hob-464-10
    HoB 464: Black on Red dish. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Black on Red dish

Date
Context: early to third quarter of 7th c BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P12.065
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Dish
Pottery Ware
Lydian Painted - Black on Red - Patterned
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
Locus
HoB Lydian II - Building J
B-Grid Coordinates
W12 - W13 / S96 - S97 *98.2 - 98
Findspot
W12-13 / S96-97 *98.2-98.0 ⁓ east of Building J
Description
Black on Red dish with plain rim. Exterior, two parallel black bands below the rim. Interior, groups of five large vertical wavy lines. They are bordered on either side with a small, black band, the topmost of which is on the rim. Below, the motif repeats, although offset.
Dimensions
H. 0.062, est. Diam. 0.27, Th. 0.0085.
Comments
See Also
Bibliography
Author
GGD