• r8-pc-104-10
    PC 104: Shoulder of Lydian jug. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

    Shoulder of Lydian jug

    Report 8: Ordinary Lydians at Home: The Lydian Trenches of the House of Bronzes and Pactolus Cliff at Sardis (2021) Cat. PC 104
    Date
    Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age, Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian
    Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
    P60.464
    Material
    Ceramic
    Object Type
    Pottery
    Pottery Shape
    Jug
    Pottery Ware
    Lydian Painted - Brown on Buff
    Pottery Attribution
    Site
    Sardis
    Sector
    PC
    Trench
    PC
    Locus
    PC Beneath LVC/North
    B-Grid Coordinates
    *87.5 - 87
    Findspot
    Beneath LVC/North *87.50–87.00
    Description
    Fragment of the shoulder of a small painted jug. Brown on Buff with parts of two large painted triangles preserved. One triangle filled with an oblique checkerboard pattern with brown and reserved diamonds. The other, with oblique crosshatching. Of typical Lydian color and fabric, which is here red, but burned.
    Dimensions
    L. 0.058, W. 0.075, Th. 0.006.
    Comments
    See Also
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    Author
    NHR

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