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HoB 765: Waveline amphora or hydria neck. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Waveline amphora or hydria neck
- Date
- Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P63.411V
- 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 - 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
- Rim and neck of Waveline amphora or hydria. Handle stump preserved. Rim, thickened and out-turning. Nearly vertical, slightly flaring towards rim. A row of small repair holes were made along the end of the neck. Dark paint on clay surface. Exterior, dark band along rim; single horizontal wavy line on neck; single horizontal band at the end of neck; traces of paint on the stump. Interior, dark band along rim. Other parts of the vessel clearly had been sheared off for re-use of this neck. Illustrated upside down to show how it would have been used. See also HoB 524–HoB 533, HoB 702–HoB 707, and HoB 711.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.115, Diam. of rim 0.24, Diam. of neck 0.17, Th. 0.007–0.014.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- GGD