• r8-pc-106-10
    PC 106: Gray Ware krater. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

    Gray Ware krater

    Report 8: Ordinary Lydians at Home: The Lydian Trenches of the House of Bronzes and Pactolus Cliff at Sardis (2021) Cat. PC 106
    Date
    Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age, Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian
    Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
    P60.467
    Material
    Ceramic
    Object Type
    Pottery
    Pottery Shape
    Krater
    Pottery Ware
    Lydian Grayware
    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
    Large vessel with ledge rim that also projects slightly inward. On the exterior, four distinctive raised ridges run horizontally on the vessel below the rim. The top of the rim is decorated with an incised wave pattern and is polished. Smoothed on exterior and interior. Burned.
    Dimensions
    H. 0.088, W. 0.144, Diam. 0.36, Th. 0.011.
    Comments
    See Also
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    Author
    NHR

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