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HoB 522: Waveline amphora. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Waveline amphora
- Date
- Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC, Lydian
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 2209
- Museum Inventory No.
- 2209
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P58.587
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Amphora
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Painted - Banded / Waveline
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian I - Lydian Shop
- B-Grid Coordinates
- ca. E15 - E18 / S53.6 - S57
- Findspot
- The Lydian Shop *96.7 floor
- Description
- Many joining fragments of rim, neck, shoulder, body, and base of Waveline amphora. Everted and thickened rim; nearly vertical neck; articulated sharp transition at the join between neck and shoulder; vertical strap handle (scars preserved); plump ovoid body; high ring base. Many repair holes; three pieces of lead remain on base. Red to black streaky glaze. Exterior, band along rim and below rim. Neck has a single horizontal wavy line; horizontal band at the join between neck and shoulder. Shoulder has double horizontal S curves, arranged horizontally, and an inverted V painted over handle stump; lower shoulder, a thick horizontal band and a horizontal large double arc; two thick horizontal bands on lower body. Interior, band continued from over rim to below rim.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.325, Diam. of rim 0.223, Diam. of body 0.35, Diam. of base 0.102, Th. 0.009.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Hanfmann, “Sardis 1958,” p. 31, fig. 14; Ramage 2008, p. 83, fig. 4.
- Author
- GGD