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HoB 654: Ephesianizing dish. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Ephesianizing dish
- Date
- Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P63.491
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Stemmed Dish
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Painted - Ephesianizing
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian I - Building B, HoB Lydian I - Building F and vicinity
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W7 - W9 / S106 - S111 *99.5 - 99.1
- Findspot
- W5 / S110 *100.30-99.70; W7–9 / S106–111 *99.50–99.10; W6–9 / S107–110 *99.90–99.55; W15–20 / S110–115 *99.30 ⁓ Building F; W2–5 / S95–96 *99.20–99.00 ⁓ Building B
- Description
- Ephesianizing ware. Eight joining and nonjoining fragments of rim and bowl of dish. Plain rim; shallow bowl. Matt black and added red over thick, fine white slip. Paint over rim worn off. Exterior, below rim, three lines over red band; a band of dogtooth pattern with a horizontal line above and below; two lines over a narrow red band. Interior, below rim, two lines over a narrow red band; band with a line above and below: large square bars, divided by two short vertical lines, each painted with a red crosshatched area alternating with a black hour-glass; two horizontal lines over a narrow red band; single horizontal line.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.032, Diam. of rim ca. 0.32, Th. 0.006–0.008.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Greenewalt, Cahill et al., "Sardis 1986," p. 173, n. 49.
- Author
- GGD