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    HoB 557: Wild Goat style oinochoe. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Wild Goat style oinochoe

Date
Ca. 650-600 BC., Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P59.377
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Oinochoe
Pottery Ware
East Greek - Orientalizing
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
Locus
HoB Lydian I - Lydian Room
B-Grid Coordinates
E10 / S60 ca. *97.64 - 97
Findspot
E5-10 / S55-60 *97.64-97.00 ⁓ west of Lydian Room, earlier level
Description
Wild Goat style (North Ionian). Three fragments, two joining, of mouth, neck, and shoulder. Trefoil mouth; articulated transition from neck to shoulder. Red to dark over diluted creamy white slip. Painted from rim to upper neck. Neck has a reserved band, with a single horizontal line above and below, and a centrally dotted broken guilloche; shoulder band, from left to right, upper body of a dog to right; pendent filling ornament (three adjacent tongues, concentric semicircles surrounded by dots) above the dog; tail of a goat (?); filling ornament (rosette: central circle with four surrounding Ts).
Dimensions
H. 0.09, W. 0.115, Th. 0.004–0.006.
Comments
Hanfmann dated the piece to ca. 625–600; N. Aytaçlar dates to 650–625 B.C. (personal communication, Sardis, July 1–2, 2016). Hanfmann, “Sardis 1959,” p. 30, fig. 16.
See Also
Bibliography
Author
GGD