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    HoB 646: Bichrome stemmed dish. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Bichrome stemmed dish

Date
Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC, Lydian
Museum
Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 4355
Museum Inventory No.
4355
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P63.496
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Stemmed Dish
Pottery Ware
Lydian Painted - Red Bichrome - Banded
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
Locus
HoB Lydian I - Building E
B-Grid Coordinates
W21 - W23 / S110 - S113 *99.6 - 99.4
Findspot
W21-23 / S110-113 *99.60-99.40; W20–23 / S110–113 *99.40–99.30 ⁓ Building E
Description
Red Bichrome. Several joining and nonjoining fragments of rim, bowl, and stem of stemmed dish. Flaring wide rim; articulated carination below rim; shallow bowl. Black, red to black over white slip. Exterior, rim is painted red to black; alternating red to black and white horizontal bands; black band at juncture and at top of ring foot; stem not painted. Interior, over the rim, black horizontal wavy line over a white slipped band with a black line above and below; below rim, red horizontal band with a black line above and below; mid-bowl, reserved band, three narrow red bands with a black horizontal line above and below; traces of paint at the center of bowl.
Dimensions
H. 0.07, Diam. of rim 0.16, Diam. of base 0.072.
Comments
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Author
GGD