• r8-hob-545-10
    HoB 545: Black on Red dish. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Black on Red dish

Date
Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P58.622
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Dish
Pottery Ware
Lydian Painted - Black on Red - Patterned
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
Locus
HoB Test Pit Below Lydian Shop
B-Grid Coordinates
*96.5 - 96
Findspot
Test pit below the floor of the Lydian Shop, oven in southwest corner *96.50-96.00 or *95.90
Description
Body fragment of Black on Red dish. Badly worn. Exterior, overlapping horizontal wavy lines made with a multiple brush of three or four points. Then two black lines with white (?) slip added. Pendent ovoid concentric semicircles below. Interior, paint not preserved.
Dimensions
H. 0.064, W. 0.059, Th. 0.01.
Comments
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Author
GGD