• latw-225-1
    Fragments of Byzantine pottery, Nos. 225-227. No. 225: Yellow Glazed fine sgraffito dish. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Yellow glazed incised sgraffito bowl

Date
Thirteenth century AD, Byzantine
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
Uninv. BP 09.2
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Bowl
Pottery Ware
Sgraffito Ware
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
B
Trench
BE-H 59
B-Grid Coordinates
*99.50 - 97.50
Description
Fragments from the center of a bowl with ring foot, about two-thirds complete. Interior, dark yellow glaze with incised sgraffito decoration in dark brown, showing three lanceolate leaves, connected by their stems.
Comments
From Sardis, excavation sector Building B (Roman Bath-Gymnasium complex); recovered in 1959. Zeuxippus Family IA (Böhlendorf-Arslan).
See Also
Bibliography
Böhlendorf-Arslan 2004, 81 and fig. 25 no. 1.
Author
CHG