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HoB 540: Red Bichrome pyxis. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Red Bichrome pyxis
- Date
- Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P58.585
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Pyxis
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Painted - Red Bichrome - Banded
- 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
- Many joining fragments of rim, body, base, and handles of red Bichrome pyxis. Rim, bevelled in; wide and cylindrical neck; biconical body: sharp-angled shoulder, slightly concave-sided belly, sharp-angled transition to lower body; ring base; two loop handles, rising vertically, set on both sides of the transition of belly. Matt dark and red colors. Exterior, rim painted red; upper shoulder: wide reserved band with a series of downward hanging red petals with a single dark line above and two below. Handle zone: band painted red, two short vertical lines on each side of the handles which are painted red. Belly has a red band with a line above and below, then a single dark horizontal line, red band with a line above and below; base: painted red, a horizontal dark line below base.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.20, Diam. of rim 0.12, Diam. of base 0.92, Th. 0.004–0.005.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- GGD