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    HoB 626: Orientalizing thymiaterion (?). (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Orientalizing thymiaterion (?)

Date
Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P63.269
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Thymiaterion?
Pottery Ware
Lydian Painted - Orientalizing
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
Locus
HoB Locus Bldg D, HoB Lydian I - Building D and Extension
B-Grid Coordinates
W16 - W20 / S103 - S106 *100.15 - 99.9
Findspot
W16-20 / S103-106 *100.15-99.90 ⁓ Building D
Description

Seven joining and nonjoining fragments of thymiaterion (?). A: two joining fragments of upper body and knob. B: single fragment of shoulder, wall, and handle stump. C: four joining fragments of shoulder and body. Top body surface nearly flat, knobbed at top; sharp-angled transition from top to walls; nearly straight-sided wall; single stump of horizontal handle preserved. Red to orange over a fine creamy white slip. Knob painted red; three horizontal lines encircling knob; four pendent rays and seven-petalled floral decoration. Between rays, below each floral decoration, a large dot encircled with small dots. Then, a single horizontal line, a row of dots, and a thin band of square bars, alternately dotted and painted solid, with a single horizontal line above and below. A wider band on the carination. Reserved band at handle height: a row of birds to right. Between birds, a dot-rosette or crisscross and groups of short lines above and below. Five parallel lines below reserved band.

Local Orientalizing vessel, not Aeolic, according to N. Aytaçlar (personal communication, Sardis, July 1–2, 2016).

Dimensions
Fragment A: H. 0.034, H. of knob 0.02, W. 0.096, est. Diam. 0.016, Th. 0.005–0.007; Fragment B: H. 0.0072, W. 0.119, Th. 0.005–0.008; Fragment C: H. 0.052, W. 0.061, Th. 0.005–0.007.
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Author
GGD