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    HoB 706: Waveline hydria or amphora neck. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Waveline hydria or amphora neck

Date
Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P14.048
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Amphora Neck, 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
W21 / S99 *99.05
Findspot
W21 / S99 *99.05 ⁓ south of Building C (“Hoard A”)
Description
Rim and neck of Waveline hydria or amphora. Everted and thickened rim; nearly vertical neck. Black glaze over clay surface, glaze worn. Exterior, band along and below rim; neck, single thin 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. 0.104, Diam. of rim 0.26, Th. of neck 0.008–0.016.
Comments
See Also
Bibliography
Author
GGD