• r8-hob-504-10
    HoB 504: Small Black on Red squat jar. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Small Black on Red squat jar

Date
Context: early to third quarter of 7th c BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P66.060
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Small Jar
Pottery Ware
Anatolian Black on Red
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
Locus
HoB Lydian II - Other Bothroi
B-Grid Coordinates
W2 - W5 / S89 - S91 *97.5 - 97.3
Findspot
W3-7 / S90-95 *98.3-97.8; W2–5 / S89–91 *97.5–97.3; W2–7 / S90–95 *98.4–98.0
Description
Four fragments of neck, shoulder, and body of a globular closed vessel. Exterior, black crosshatched meanders; row of butterfly pattern; narrow band of diagonal hashes; band with no decoration except one dot, which may be a stray drip; narrow band of ladder pattern; rays; band of two lines with vertical hashes between. Very similar to HoB 505, but not the same vessel.
Dimensions
H. 0.065, est. Diam. of belly 0.105–0.11.5, Th. 0.05; Largest fragment: 0.052 Å~ 0.054.
Comments
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Author
GGD