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HoB 740: Bichrome dish. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Bichrome dish
- Date
- Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P63.375
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Dish
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Painted - Red Bichrome - Banded
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian I - Refuse Piles
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W11 - W13 / S103 - S104 *99.5 - 99.2
- Findspot
- W11-13 / S103-104 *99.50-99.20 ⁓ refuse pile
- Description
- Red Bichrome. Eight joining and nonjoining fragments of rim, bowl, and base of dish. Flaring rim; articulated carination below rim; high ring base; stump of loop (?) handle. Black over white slip (in some areas overlapping red bands) and wide red bands. Exterior, red band along the carination and over the stump handle; foot painted red. Interior, painted red over rim, with a single line above and below; below rim, white band with two horizontal lines below and a single horizontal line above (i.e., the lower border rim); wide red band; mid-bowl, white band with a single line above and below; center of bowl, white band encircled with two horizontal lines above and below.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.085, Diam. of rim 0.34, Diam. of base 0.105; Th. 0.003–0.008.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- GGD