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    HoB 524: Waveline amphora neck. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Waveline amphora neck

Report 8: Ordinary Lydians at Home: The Lydian Trenches of the House of Bronzes and Pactolus Cliff at Sardis (2021) Cat. HoB 524
Date
Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P58.561
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Amphora Neck
Pottery Ware
Lydian Painted - Banded / Waveline
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
Locus
HoB Lydian I - Lydian Shop
B-Grid Coordinates
floor *96.7
Findspot
The Lydian Shop *96.7 floor
Description
Several joining fragments of rim and neck of Waveline amphora. Everted and thickened rim; nearly vertical neck; scar of vertical strap handle on both sides of neck. Glossy dark streaky glaze. Exterior, band along rim and below rim; neck has a single wavy line; black band at the end of neck. Interior, band continued over rim.
Dimensions
H. 0.12, Diam. of rim 0.26, Th. of neck 0.014–0.018.
Comments
See Also
Bibliography
Author
GGD

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