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HoB 653: Ephesian ware stemmed dish. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Ephesian ware stemmed dish
- Date
- Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P65.023
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Stemmed Dish
- Pottery Ware
- Ephesian Ware
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian I - Building F
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W8 - W9 / S110 - S114 *99.3 - 99
- Findspot
- W8-9 / S110-114 *99.30-99.00 ⁓ Building F
- Description
- Ephesian ware. Central bowl fragment of stemmed dish. Two horizontal ridges encircling stem on the exterior. Partially worn brownish dark and added red over creamy white slip on the interior. Exterior, a thin horizontal band of ladder bordered with a dark line above and below red slip. Interior, a row of square bars with a thin band of red ladder pattern bordered with a dark line above and below; a thin horizontal band of ladder bordered with a dark horizontal line above and below over a red coat; floral register with a single line above: two volutes partially preserved (there must have been a total of four originally). In between the volute on left, two centrally painted standing triangles (alternately a pendent dark crosshatched triangle, pendent triangle painted red, and pendent dark crosshatched triangle); dark crosshatched square; partially preserved checker-board pattern in dark with red fills. Of right volute, only left spiral preserved. In between the left and right volutes, single standing dark crosshatched triangle between two pendent dark crosshatched triangles; rectangle painted red; red triangle.
- Dimensions
- L. 0.063, W. 0.077, Th. 0.006–0.01.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Greenewalt 1973, no. 17.
- Author
- GGD