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    HoB 721: Black on Red stemmed dish. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Black on Red stemmed dish

Date
Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P62.442A
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Stemmed Dish
Pottery Ware
Lydian Painted - Black on Red - Banded
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
Locus
HoB Lydian I - Floor with Puppy Burials at *99.4
B-Grid Coordinates
W21 - W19 / S95 - S97 floor *99.4
Findspot
W19-21 / S95-97 *99.4 floor ⁓ south of Building C
Description
Nearly complete Black on Red stemmed dish; several pieces missing from base. Many joining fragments. Slightly inverted plain rim; shallow bowl; high stem. Matt black over red slip. Exterior, red band along rim: four stems of eight short vertical lines; red band below rim with horizontal lines above and double below; from beginning of stem to below the base painted red: four lines at mid-stem and three spiral horizontal lines over base. Interior, two groups of horizontal lines (five to six), one below rim, the other near mid-bowl; central bowl, encircled with a group of concentric lines.
Dimensions
H. 0.07, Diam. of rim 0.12, Diam. of base 0.07.
Comments
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Author
GGD