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HoB 466: Bichrome skyphos. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Bichrome skyphos
- Date
- Context: early to third quarter of 7th c BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P66.054
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Skyphos
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Painted - Red Bichrome - Banded
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian II - Building J
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W16 - W19 / S90 - S95 *98.3 - 98
- Findspot
- W16-19 / S90-95 *98.3-98.0
- Description
- Red Bichrome. Two joining fragments of rim, bowl, and handle of skyphos. Plain and slightly inverted rim; wide and deep bowl; thick loop handle (one handle preserved). Exterior, matt black and red. Painted red along rim. Handle zone, single horizontal dark wavy line with two horizontal dark lines (partially overlapping the red band along rim and below handle) above and below a reserved band; handle painted red; below handle, a red band; reserved band; lower bowl, single dark horizontal line over painted red area. Interior, four painted red bands from rim to lower body, plus a fifth band, or possibly a circle at bottom.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.117, Diam. of rim 0.185, Th. 0.004–0.006.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- GGD