• r8-pc-105-10
    PC 105: Pithos with graffito. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

    Pithos with graffito

    Report 8: Ordinary Lydians at Home: The Lydian Trenches of the House of Bronzes and Pactolus Cliff at Sardis (2021) Cat. PC 105
    Date
    Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age, Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian
    Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
    P60.465
    Material
    Ceramic
    Object Type
    Pottery
    Pottery Shape
    Pithos
    Pottery Ware
    Lydian Plainware
    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
    Thick-walled body fragment of a pithos. Coarse red clay. Two small raised bands between which is a symbol resembling an X with an additional extra diagonal line running from the bottom half of the X and another extra short diagonal line at the top half of the X.
    Dimensions
    H. 0.105, W. 0.12, Th. 0.017; Interwoven letters: H. 0.04, W. 0.05.
    Comments
    See Also
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    Author
    NHR

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