• r8-pc-115-10
    Bichrome pyxis. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

    Bichrome pyxis

    Date
    6th c BC?, Lydian
    Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
    P60.445
    Material
    Ceramic
    Object Type
    Pottery
    Pottery Shape
    Pyxis
    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 - 83
    Findspot
    Beneath LVC/North *89.50–88.00
    Description

    Body and shoulder fragments of a red Bichrome pyxis with a white slip. Large cylindrical body with tapering shoulder. Orange-red fabric with cream slip on exterior. A register of a horizontal, orange wavy line just below where the shoulder bends toward the neck. Bordered on either side with a light-gray (or in places, a dark brown) band. Below, a large register with a continuous series of diagonally crossing lines, each creating an X. Each X is outlined in light-gray and filled in orange with black diagonal lines. The diagonal lines cease where the two diagonal lines cross, creating a diamond shape. In the triangular spaces that each X leaves is either a triangle or a diamond. Both triangles and diamonds are obliquely crosshatched with a light-gray and orange line. Another wavy line, like that on the upper side, is found on the lower side. Smoothed on exterior and burnished on interior.

    Cf. LATW, p. 474, cat. no. 87.

    Dimensions
    Largest fragment: H. 0.075, W. 0.125, Th. 0.008.
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    Author
    NHR