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PC 107: Island Geometric krater. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Island Geometric krater
- Date
- Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age, Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P60.399
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Krater
- Pottery Ware
- East Greek Geometric
- 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
Red on buff body fragment of a krater. Parts of two large concentric circles, a star burst, part of a swastika, and dots. This field is separated from another by four vertical lines. Then, two vertical lines filled with diagonal hatching, which may be part of a meander. Interior is streaky red. Exterior is polished and the clay is fine. Lynn Roller (personal communication, ca. 1990) is confident this is a Chian piece.
Cf. similar pattern, Boardman 1967, pl. 48, no. 548, at left.
- Dimensions
- L. 0.05, W. 0.08, Th. 0.007.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- NHR