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    HoB 546: Bichrome dish. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Bichrome dish

Report 8: Ordinary Lydians at Home: The Lydian Trenches of the House of Bronzes and Pactolus Cliff at Sardis (2021) Cat. HoB 546
Date
Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P58.633
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Dish
Pottery Ware
Lydian Painted - Red Bichrome - Banded
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
Locus
HoB Test Pit Below Lydian Shop
B-Grid Coordinates
*96.4
Findspot
Test pit below the floor of the Lydian Shop, southwest corner *96.40
Description
Rim and body fragment of Bichrome dish. Slightly inverted rim. Exterior, two narrow black bands and a red line between them; a white band with two black bands on top; dark band below is abraded and possibly unpainted. Interior, a white slipped band below the rim framed with a horizontal line above and below: a horizontal black wavy line and a horizontal line. Red slip toward the center.
Dimensions
H. 0.038, est. Diam. 0.23–0.26, Th. 0.007.
Comments
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Author
GGD

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