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    HoB 581: Wild Goat style dish. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Wild Goat style dish

Date
Ca. 525-500 BC?, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P62.100
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Dish
Pottery Ware
East Greek? Orientalizing
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
Locus
HoB Lydian I - Building A
B-Grid Coordinates
E5 / S105 - S110 to *99.4
Findspot
E5 / S105-110 To *99.40; E0–5 / S105 *99.40–99.10; E0–5 / S108–110 To *99.60 ⁓ discovered within the upper filling of walls; inside Building A
Description

Seven joining and nonjoining fragments of Wild Goat style dish. Plain, thickened, and long rim; sharp transition to shallow bowl; stumps of two omega handles. Red over white slip.

Exterior, fragment A: rim, meander row; handle stump, vertical brush strokes; two horizontal lines; leg of a deer or goat between filling ornament. Fragment B: rim plain slipped; handle stump, vertical brush strokes; two horizontal lines; a feline to left, with spotted body and legs; filling ornament between legs. Fragment C: two horizontal bands at lower part of register with paint worn off, traces of single foreleg of a goat or deer to right, filling ornament, dotted cross.

Interior, fragment A: hatched area of unidentified motif (tail?); filling ornament (standing triangle); horizontal band framing the upper border of a band (dogtooth pattern?); two bands with a horizontal line above and below. Running S (traces of meander on the right); dogtooth pattern; rim painted. Fragment B: short horizontal battlement meander and a foreleg of a deer or goat to right, filling ornament (standing triangle), dog to left (head and forelegs preserved) and traces of filling ornament in between legs; series of bands with a horizontal line above and below: running S with dogtooth pattern on the right; meander row; dogtooth pattern; rim painted. Fragment C: horizontal battlement meander; running S with a horizontal band above and below.

In the opinion of M. Kerschner and N. Aytaçlar (personal communication, Sardis, July 1–2, 2016), certainly not Ionian; perhaps Lydian of the lower Hermus valley, or Aeolic. Probably last quarter of the sixth century.

Dimensions
Fragment A: L. 0.081, W. 0.086, Th. 0.005–0.006; Fragment B: L. 0.042, W. 0.10, Th. 0.005–0.006; Fragment C: L. 0.032, W. 0.058, Th. 0.005.
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Author
GGD