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    HoB 700: Waveline hydria. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Waveline hydria

Report 8: Ordinary Lydians at Home: The Lydian Trenches of the House of Bronzes and Pactolus Cliff at Sardis (2021) Cat. HoB 700
Date
Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P62.462
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Amphora, Hydria
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 shoulder, body, and handle of Waveline hydria. Two horizontal loop handles with seven small holes on each (holes do not go through the other end of the handle). Decoration red to dark. Exterior, two horizontal bands at the juncture of neck and shoulder; two horizontal bands above and below handles; all of these bands are vertically crossed by several double large loops; handles plain streaky.
Dimensions
H. 0.0225, max. Diam. 0.42, Th. 0.008.
Comments
See Also
Bibliography
Author
GGD

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