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    HoB 666: Wild Goat style oinochoe. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Wild Goat style oinochoe

Date
Ca. 610–575 BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P64.023
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Oinochoe
Pottery Ware
East Greek - Orientalizing
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
Locus
HoB Area Around Building F and Earlier Levels
B-Grid Coordinates
W5 - W10 / S114 - S116 floor *99.6 - 98.6
Findspot
W5-10 / S114-116 *99.60-98.60 floor ⁓ Building F
Description

Wild Goat style (North Ionian). Mixed technique. Body fragment of oinochoe. Black over slip (?) (paint and slip, if they existed, worn off almost completely). Exterior, first register: filling ornament (hooked swastika), deer or goat to right (haunch and hind foot preserved), filling ornament (horizontal spiral); second register: a single horizontal line above, ends of two vertical lines?

Late seventh century BC, according to M. Kerschner; and 610–575 BC, in the opinion of N. Aytaçlar (personal communication, Sardis, July 1–2, 2016).

Dimensions
L. 0.062, W. 0.047, Th. 0.004.
Comments
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Bibliography
Author
GGD