• r8-pc-111-10
    PC 111: Bichrome bowl. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

    Bichrome bowl

    Report 8: Ordinary Lydians at Home: The Lydian Trenches of the House of Bronzes and Pactolus Cliff at Sardis (2021) Cat. PC 111
    Date
    Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age, Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian
    Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
    P60.438
    Material
    Ceramic
    Object Type
    Pottery
    Pottery Shape
    Bowl
    Pottery Ware
    Lydian Painted - White Bichrome - Patterned
    Pottery Attribution
    Site
    Sardis
    Sector
    PC
    Trench
    PC
    Locus
    PC Beneath LVC/North
    B-Grid Coordinates
    *89.5 - 88
    Findspot
    Beneath LVC/North *89.50–88.00
    Description
    Rim fragment of a white Bichrome dish or shallow bowl. Overall red-slipped. Exterior: Rim painted black, and a black line just below the rim. Then a thick white band bordered by black lines, and one dividing it down the middle. On both halves of the white band, crosshatched squares. Another black band toward the center. Interior: below the inverted rim, a wide white painted band bordered on both sides by a thick black band. Crosshatched squares in black on the white band (as on exterior).
    Dimensions
    L. from rim 0.08, W. 0.056, Th. 0.004, Th. of rim 0.008.
    Comments
    See Also
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    Author
    NHR

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