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HoB 578: Waveline hydria or amphora. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Waveline hydria or amphora
- Date
- Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P62.220
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Amphora, Hydria
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Painted - Banded / Waveline
- 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
- Waveline hydria or amphora. Many joining and nonjoining fragments of rim, neck, shoulder, body, and handle (single loop handle preserved). Everted and thickened rim; nearly vertical neck; horizontal loop handle rising diagonally at shoulder; plump ovoid body. Painted red over clay surface. Exterior, single band along rim and two bands below rim; neck, a single horizontal wavy line; horizontal band at the end of neck; shoulder, horizontal double arc, diamond at the juncture of arcs; double loop pattern overlaps both the horizontal lines (above handle) and the arcs above; two narrow horizontal bands above handle and lower body.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.37, Diam. of rim 0.40, Th. of neck 0.005–0.01, Th. of body 0.005–0.007.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- GGD