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HoB 699: Waveline hydria or amphora. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Waveline hydria or amphora
- Date
- Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P14.054
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Amphora
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Painted - Banded / Waveline
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian I - Pot Hoard A at *99.05
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W21 / S99 *99.05
- Findspot
- W21 / S99 *99.05 ⁓ south of Building C (“Hoard A”)
- Description
- Many joining fragments of rim, neck, shoulder, and body of Waveline hydria or amphora. Everted and thickened rim; slightly curving neck; articulated sharp transition at the join between neck and shoulder; stumps of vertical strap handle on the neck and on the shoulder (single handle partially preserved); plump ovoid body. Glossy black glaze, occasionally streaky, applied over clay surface. Exterior, band along rim and below rim; neck, single horizontal wavy line; horizontal band at the join between neck and shoulder; shoulder, double horizontal S curves, arranged horizontally; three petals, arranged as palmettes, at the join of curves; below handle, a wide band framed with a thin band above and below; vertical single band on both sides of the handle on the shoulder; handle painted. Interior, band continued from over rim to below rim.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.26, Diam. of rim 0.023, Th. of body 0.004–0.008.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- GGD