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HoB 534: Large Ephesian ware closed vessel. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Large Ephesian ware closed vessel
- Date
- Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P58.610
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Closed Vessel
- Pottery Ware
- Ephesian Ware
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian I - Lydian Shop
- B-Grid Coordinates
- *96.84 - 96.5
- Findspot
- The Lydian Shop *96.7 floor
- Description
- Ephesian ware. Two body fragments that don’t join. Matt dark and red over a thick white slip. Exterior, fragment 1. Partially preserved open palmette: the outer petals (calyx) and the five inner petals outlined; the outer petals dark spotted, the central inner petal red; the center of palmette outlined and painted red; ridge painted red at the stem of palmette; below the ridge, two opposed scrolls and an outlined, red spotted petal on the right. Fragment 2. Four standing rays, dark outlined and alternately plain red and painted dark, with a single dark horizontal line below; a row of squares bordered with a single line above and below, squares alternately dark outlined and painted red.
- Dimensions
- Fragment 1: L. 0.067, W. 0.059, Th. 0.01–0.012; Fragment 2: L. 0.44, W. 0.057, Th. 0.009–0.01.
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- Author
- GGD