• r8-pc-112-10
    PC 112: Marbled skyphos with white slip and vertical red wiggly lines. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

    Marbled skyphos with white slip and vertical red wiggly lines

    Report 8: Ordinary Lydians at Home: The Lydian Trenches of the House of Bronzes and Pactolus Cliff at Sardis (2021) Cat. PC 112
    Date
    6th c BC, Lydian
    Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
    P60.437
    Material
    Ceramic
    Object Type
    Pottery
    Pottery Shape
    Skyphos
    Pottery Ware
    Lydian Painted - Marbled
    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, handle, and body fragments of a large skyphos. Inturned rim with a tapering lip. Exterior is slipped in white. A reddish-orange band along the rim. Body has sections of vertical red wiggly lines made with a ten-headed multiple brush, making a marbled effect. The horizontal loop handle also decorated with this same decoration. Three small holes at the broken edge of the body on the right are from an ancient repair. Interior is streaky black.
    Dimensions
    H. 0.095, W. 0.072, est. Diam. 0.14, Th. 0.004.
    Comments
    See Also
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    Author
    NHR

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