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HoB 643: Terracotta figure (?). (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Terracotta figure (?)
- Date
- Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P61.533
- Material
- Terracotta
- Object Type
- Figural Terracotta
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian I - Building D and Extension
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W4 - W5 / S89 - S94 *99.15 - 98.9
- Findspot
- W4-5 / S89-91 *99.15-98.85; W5–6 / S89–90 *99.00–98.74
- Description
- Three fragments of a large terracotta figure (?). Formerly thought to be fragments of Hittite-type rhyta, and published as such several times. Exterior shaved and polished before the slip was applied. White glazed band on one of the fragments. All fragments are wheelmade, and slipped on the inside; the fragment with the largest curve is rough and unpainted on the interior, but slipped farther down (see drawing).
- Dimensions
- H. 0.128, Diam. of largest fragment 0.06.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- GGD