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HoB 627: Small Black on Red pyxis. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Small Black on Red pyxis
- Date
- Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P65.014
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Pyxis
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Painted - Black on Red - Banded
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian I - Building D and Extension
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W11 / S101 *99
- Findspot
- W11 / S101 *99.0, near second floor ⁓ Building D
- Description
- Black on Red. Three joining fragments of pyxis, complete, except a small piece on lower body. Plain rim; wide and cylindrical neck; sharp-angled shoulder; slightly concave-sided belly; sharp-angled transition to lower body; flat base. Matt black on red slip (paint largely worn off). Exterior, red slipped from rim to a little below belly; two horizontal lines below rim; horizontal lines below neck and lower body; three dark lines on lower body. Interior: neck painted red.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.095, Diam. of rim 0.082, Diam. of base 0.047, Th. 0.004–0.005.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- GGD