• r8-pc-100-10
    PC 100: Pithos. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

    Pithos

    Report 8: Ordinary Lydians at Home: The Lydian Trenches of the House of Bronzes and Pactolus Cliff at Sardis (2021) Cat. PC 100
    Date
    Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age, Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian
    Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
    P13.022
    Material
    Ceramic
    Object Type
    Pottery
    Pottery Shape
    Pithos
    Pottery Ware
    Lydian Plainware
    Pottery Attribution
    Site
    Sardis
    Sector
    PC
    Trench
    PC
    Locus
    PC Zone 1
    B-Grid Coordinates
    *90.3 - 90
    Findspot
    Zone 1 *90.30–90.00
    Description
    Fragment of a pithos with deep crisscrossed cuts in the clay to make a pattern that imitates a rope on a raised band.
    Dimensions
    H. 0.063, Th. 0.016.
    Comments
    See Also
    Bibliography
    Author
    NHR

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