• r8-pc-109-10
    PC 109: Bichrome dish. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

    Bichrome dish

    Report 8: Ordinary Lydians at Home: The Lydian Trenches of the House of Bronzes and Pactolus Cliff at Sardis (2021) Cat. PC 109
    Date
    Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age, Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian
    Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
    P60.455
    Material
    Ceramic
    Object Type
    Pottery
    Pottery Shape
    Stemmed Dish
    Pottery Ware
    Lydian Painted - White Bichrome - Patterned
    Pottery Attribution
    Site
    Sardis
    Sector
    PC
    Trench
    PC
    Locus
    PC Beneath LVC/North
    B-Grid Coordinates
    *88
    Findspot
    Beneath LVC/North *88.00
    Description
    Rim and two body fragments of a Lydian bichrome dish. Flat ledge rim, painted on top with black or dark red squares on a white slip. Exterior: white band covers area below rim. Orange-red concentric circles closely spaced on this white band, each with a dot in the middle. The inner circle is hand-drawn. Dark red slip below carination, and then three white bands. The middle one of these (the widest) has the same concentric circles as those below rim. Red slip is dark. Interior: four white bands over dark red slip. The first and third bands (again the widest) have the same pattern of concentric circles.
    Dimensions
    Diam. of rim 0.22, Th. 0.007.
    Comments
    See Also
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    Author
    NHR

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