• r8-pc-113-10
    PC 113: Large Black on Red krater. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

    Large Black on Red krater

    Report 8: Ordinary Lydians at Home: The Lydian Trenches of the House of Bronzes and Pactolus Cliff at Sardis (2021) Cat. PC 113
    Date
    Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age, Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian
    Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
    P60.435
    Material
    Ceramic
    Object Type
    Pottery
    Pottery Shape
    Krater
    Pottery Ware
    Lydian Painted - Black on Red - 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 and body fragment of large krater. Ledge rim projects outward. Upper body covered with Black on Red decoration. Below the rim, two overlapping horizontal bands. Below, squares with crosshatching alternating with reserved squares. In the register below another thick black band, the same pattern but alternating. At carination, another thick black band and the beginnings of pendent concentric semicircles.
    Dimensions
    H. 0.075, Diam. 0.38, Th. 0.007.
    Comments
    See Also
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    Author
    NHR

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