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    HoB 704: Waveline hydria neck. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Waveline hydria neck

Date
Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P14.053
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Hydria Neck
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
W19 / S99 *99.05
Findspot
W19 / S99 *99.05, south of Building C (“Hoard A”)
Description
Five joining fragments of rim and neck of Waveline hydria. Everted and thickened rim; nearly vertical neck; articulated sharp transition at the join between neck and shoulder; vertical strap handle (handle stump preserved). Black glaze over clay surface. Exterior, band along and below rim; neck, single horizontal wavy line; horizontal band at the end of neck. Interior, band along and below rim. Other parts of the vessel clearly had been sheared off.
Dimensions
H. 0.105, Diam. of rim 0.27, Th. of shoulder 0.006–0.007.
Comments
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Author
GGD