• r8-pc-110-10
    PC 110: Deep basin with painted decoration. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

    Deep basin with painted decoration

    Report 8: Ordinary Lydians at Home: The Lydian Trenches of the House of Bronzes and Pactolus Cliff at Sardis (2021) Cat. PC 110
    Date
    Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age, Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian
    Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
    P60.457
    Material
    Ceramic
    Object Type
    Pottery
    Pottery Shape
    Krater
    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
    The rim projects both outward and inward. Vertical attached (nonfunctional) handle has a flat projection at the top. The scar of the other side of the handle, which looped downwards, is preserved at the left of the fragment. Painted decoration on the inside of the handle has a pinkish slip square that was originally presumably white. A double line surrounds this square, which is painted with delicate lines: diagonal crosshatching within a triangle. Red slip on exterior, ledge rim, and a band at top of interior.
    Dimensions
    H. 0.056, Diam. 0.58, Th. 0.012.
    Comments
    See Also
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    Author
    NHR

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