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HoB 628: Ephesianizing handle. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Ephesianizing handle
- Date
- Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P65.123
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Handle
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Painted - Ephesianizing
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian I - Building D and Extension
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W14 - W18 / S104 - S107 *98.5
- Findspot
- W14-18 / S104-107 *98.50 ⁓ Building D
- Description
- Ephesianizing strap handle fragment. Sides are finely edged. Matt dark and red over a thick creamy white slip. On top of handle, the three sides have three dark parallel lines forming two narrow bands; the outer band is red coated over slip and is decorated with a dark ladder pattern; the inner is reserved and is decorated on two long sides and possibly on the short side with red ladder pattern; center of handle has linked vertical lozenges.
- Dimensions
- L. 0.05, W. 0.042, Th. 0.006.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Hanfmann, "Sardis 1965," p. 14.
- Author
- GGD