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    HoB 563: 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.
P59.451
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 Lydian II - Test Pits into Lydian II Levels East of Lydian Room
B-Grid Coordinates
E20 / S60 ca. *96.55
Findspot
E7-10 / S55-57 Ca. *96.55
Description
Black on Red rim and body of shallow dish. Concentric semicircles resting on a narrow black band on the broad flaring rim. Beyond the sharply edged rim, concentric pendent semicircles with a horizontal line above.
Dimensions
H. 0.043, W. 0.055, Th. 0.008.
Comments
See Also
Bibliography
Author
GGD