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HoB 661: Bichrome amphora. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Bichrome amphora
- Date
- Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P12.160
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Amphora
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Painted - White Bichrome - Patterned
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian I - Building F
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W7 - W13 / S115 - S117 floor *99.3 - 99
- Findspot
- W7-13 / S115-117 *99.30-99.00 floor ⁓ Building F
- Description
- White Bichrome. Two joining fragments of body of amphora. Matt black and red over thick fine white slip. Three bands, each separated by triple horizontal lines (a red line in between two black lines): first band, pendent concentric semicircle (three brushes) with central painted dot between latticed rectangles; second band: groups of three short vertical bands of ladder pattern; a row of pendent concentric semicircles (each four brushes); triple lines.
- Dimensions
- L. 0.093, W. 0.142, Th. 0.007–0.009.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- GGD