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HoB 597: Wild Goat style lebes (?). (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Wild Goat style lebes (?)
- Date
- Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC, Lydian
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 5887
- Museum Inventory No.
- 5887
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P65.006
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Lebes
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Painted - Orientalizing
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian I - Building B and Vicinity
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W7 / S96 *99.3
- Findspot
- W7 / S96 *99.30 ⁓ Discovered at the north corner of west wall, below foundation of Building B
- Description
- Sardis Wild Goat style. Matt black and red over creamy white slip. Exterior, first register: spotted sphinx to right (three of its paws preserved); single horizontal band; second register: filling ornament (dot-rosette), bird to right (head turned back left), sphinx to left (foreleg spotted, rest with reserved lower leg and solid painted upper leg), filling ornament (dot-rosette and circle with dots), sphinx (?) to right (one hind paw preserved); third register: filling ornament (dot-rosette), goat to right, body solid painted (feet and head not preserved), filling ornament above deer (cross with triangle in between extremities and dot-rosette); filling ornament (two dot-rosettes); tail of a goat (?) to right. Interior painted red.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.155, W. 0.18, Th. 0.006.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Hanfmann, "Sardis 1965," p. 15, fig. 11; Greenewalt 1970, no. 15, pl. 9, fig. 2.
- Author
- GGD