• r8-hob-574-10
    HoB 574: Bichrome skyphos. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Bichrome skyphos

Date
Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P62.159
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Skyphos
Pottery Ware
Lydian Painted - Red Bichrome - Banded
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
Locus
HoB Lydian I - Building A
B-Grid Coordinates
E5 / S105 *98.9
Findspot
E5 / S105 *98.90, below the second floor level *99.15 ⁓ inside Building A
Description
Red Bichrome. Eight joining and nonjoining fragments of rim, bowl, base, and stump of single handle of skyphos. Plain rim; deep bowl; low conical foot. Exterior and interior, matt black with added white color over slightly streaky red slip. Exterior, single horizontal dark line over and below rim; three triple lines (a single white horizontal line with a dark line above and below) placed below handle, at mid-bowl and lower body. Interior, four triple lines (a single white horizontal line with a dark line above and below), placed below rim, at upper body, and around the center of bowl.
Dimensions
Est. h. 0.12–0.13, Diam. of rim 0.14, Diam. of base 0.06, Th. 0.004–0.006.
Comments
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Author
GGD