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    HoB 757: Small oinochoe. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Small oinochoe

Date
Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P63.411S
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Oinochoe
Pottery Ware
Lydian Painted - Dipped
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
Eleven joining fragments of rim, neck, body, and base of small oinochoe; handle and several fragments of body missing. Trefoil mouth; nearly vertical neck; ovoid body; plain base; vertical handle from rim to shoulder (only scar on shoulder preserved). Red to dark glazed. Exterior, dipped in glaze from rim to shoulder. Interior, glaze over the rim.
Dimensions
H. 0.122, Rim 0.059 × 0.054, Diam. of base 0.041, Th. 0.003–0.006.
Comments
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Author
GGD