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    HoB 611: Ephesianizing stemmed dish. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Ephesianizing stemmed dish

Date
Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P63.608
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Stemmed Dish
Pottery Ware
Lydian Painted - Ephesianizing
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
Locus
HoB Lydian I - Building D and Extension, HoB Lydian I - Building F
B-Grid Coordinates
W15 - W16 / S103 - S104 *99.3 - 99.05
Findspot
W15-16 / S103-104 *99.30-99.05; W8–13 / S110–115 *98.65; W15–20 / S103–106 *99.10–98.80; W16–18 / S105 *99.30–99.00 ⁓ Building D; upper (?) fragment from Building F
Description

Ephesianizing ware. Four joining fragments of bowl and the beginning of stemmed foot. Matt black glazed and added red over fine and thick white slip. Exterior, three horizontal lines over band painted red; groups of short vertical wavy lines in a band with a single horizontal line above and two horizontal lines below; reserved band; horizontal row of black dots over a band painted red with a single narrow black band of dots (bordered with a line above and below); rising rays above a single horizontal line, outlined in black and alternately painted with red and black. Lower bowl and start of foot painted red; transition from lower bowl to foot, two narrow black bands of dots bordered with a line above and below. Interior, from top to bottom, partially preserved band of square bars with a single horizontal line below; reserved band; single horizontal line; a row of dots in a narrow band painted red with a horizontal line above and below; a band of dogtooth with a single line above and below; a row of dots in a narrow band painted red with a horizontal line above and below; rising rays (paint largely worn off) above a single horizontal line, outlined in black and alternately painted with red and black. Center of bowl, a meander pattern bordered by a single horizontal line above and below; checkerboard pattern, alternately red latticed, dark latticed and centrally dotted.

Analyzed by M. Kerschner (sample Sard 18).

Dimensions
H. 0.076, L. 0.121, W. 0.20, Th. 0.006–0.009.
Comments
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Author
GGD