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    HoB 677: Black on Red small squat jar. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Black on Red small squat jar

Date
Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P64.026
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Small Jar
Pottery Ware
Anatolian Black on Red
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
Locus
HoB Lydian I - Building F W5-10/S114-116 *99.6-98.9 Floor
B-Grid Coordinates
W5 - W10 / S114 - S116 floor *99.6 - 98.9
Findspot
W5-10 / S114-116 *99.60-98.90 floor ⁓ Building F
Description

Anatolian Black on Red (not Lydian or Lydianizing). Shoulder fragment of jar. Matt black on painted red surface. Exterior, three parallel lines; narrow band of groups of five short vertical lines and a dot in between, with a horizontal line above and below; three horizontal lines; a band with crosshatched broken meander pattern with a single horizontal line above.

Analyzed by Kealhofer and Grave (Kealhofer, Grave, and Marsh 2013: sample AIA 944).

Dimensions
L. 0.037, W. 0.033, Th. 0.004.
Comments
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Author
GGD