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HoB 618: Bichrome lebes. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Bichrome lebes
- Date
- Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P63.480A
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Lebes
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Painted - Red Bichrome - Banded
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian I - Building D and Extension
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W13 - W15 / S105 - S108 floor *99.4
- Findspot
- W13-15 / S105-109 *99.40 floor
- Description
- Red Bichrome. Many joining and nonjoining fragments of rim, body and horizontal handle (single stump preserved) of lebes. Flaring rim; spherical body; horizontal cylindrical handle below rim. Matt black, red, and white. Exterior, over rim: groups of diagonal red strokes with single horizontal black line below over white slip; red band below rim; at least four bands, with a single line above and below, with groups of ten or eleven short vertical lines. Lower body: wide red band with two black horizontal lines above and below; three horizontal white lines; two black horizontal lines; lower body painted red.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.17, Diam. of rim 0.29–0.30, Th. 0.004–0.006.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- GGD