• r8-hob-529-10
    HoB 529: Waveline hydria neck. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Waveline hydria neck

Date
Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P58.565
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Hydria 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, and small part of shoulder of Waveline hydria. Everted and thickened rim; nearly vertical neck; articulated sharp transition at the join between neck and shoulder; vertical strap handle (scar preserved). Red to black streaky glaze. Exterior, band along rim. Neck has a single wavy line; band at the join between neck and shoulder; upper shoulder, part of horizontal wave-line overlapping a horizontal large double arc, triangle at the join of arcs. Interior, band continued from rim.
Dimensions
H. 0.123, Diam. of rim 0.26, Th. of shoulder 0.004–0.007.
Comments
See Also
Bibliography
Ramage 2008, p. 81, fig. 2.
Author
GGD