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    HoB 750: Wild Goat Style Lebes. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Wild Goat Style Lebes

Date
Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P63.366
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Lebes
Pottery Ware
Lydian Painted - Orientalizing
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
Locus
HoB Lydian I - Refuse Piles
B-Grid Coordinates
W11 - W13 / S103 - S104 to *99.5 - 99.2
Findspot
W10 / S100 *100.30-99.60; W13 / S99 *99.00; W11–13 / S103–104 *99.50–99.20 ⁓ refuse pile
Description

Several joining fragments of “Sardis Style” Orientalizing lebes. Everted rim; spherical body; slightly flattened bottom. Red and dark paint over fine white slip on the exterior and red on the interior. Exterior, over rim, a band of rectangular spaces divided by two short vertical lines: the spaces are alternately decorated with crisscross, and dots and circle with a central dot encircled by other dots; red banded on the edge of rim; three registers on the body, each divided by a single red band:

1. Red spotted and dark outlined feline walking left (hind preserved), two dark outlined and red spotted deer walking to right, small bird and hind of a running dog to right, red silhouette painted feline (?) to left (hind foot preserved), a red silhouette painted feline to right (foreleg, two hind legs, and underbelly preserved), and a bird painted red; filling ornament.

2. Spotted feline to left (hind foot preserved), grazing goat to right, walking goat to right, two antithetic lions, lion to right (fore and hind body of all lions are dark and mid-body red), spotted deer to right, filling ornament.

3. Reserved band.

Analyzed by M. Kerschner (sample Sard 58), and by Kealhofer and Grave (Kealhofer, Grave, and Marsh 2013: sample AIA 899).

Dimensions
H. 0.24, Diam. of rim 0.32, Diam. of base 0.07.
Comments
See Also
See also: LATW, No. 90.
Bibliography
Hanfmann, “Sardis 1963,” p. 11, fig. 6; Detweiler and Mitten 1963, p. 10, fig. 4; Mellink 1964, p. 163, pl. 52, fig. 20; Mitten 1966, p. 48, fig. 8 on p. 49; Art Treasures of Turkey (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1966), pp. 29, 87, no. 113; Hanfmann 1967, p. 287, pl. 334; Greenewalt 1970, no. 1; Greenewalt 2010b, p. 117, fig. 16; LATW, p. 476, no. 90.
Author
GGD