• r8-pc-114-10
    PC 114: Bowl with handle. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

    Bowl with handle

    Report 8: Ordinary Lydians at Home: The Lydian Trenches of the House of Bronzes and Pactolus Cliff at Sardis (2021) Cat. PC 114
    Date
    Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age, Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian
    Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
    P60.442
    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
    Handle and rim of a Bichrome bowl. Handle, rising from the rim, is slipped white on both sides and on top; vertical lines painted over the white on all sides. This pattern continues on the flat top and both sides of the rim, which has a square profile. Exterior: below the rim, the beginning of pendent semicircles. Interior: red-slipped. The way this fragment survives makes it look like a duck or bird, or possibly an animal. One might speculate that it was trimmed this way, and may have been given to a child as a toy.
    Dimensions
    H. 0.07, W. with handle 0.10, Th. 0.09.
    Comments
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    Author
    NHR

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