• r8-pc-121-10
    PC 121: Skyphos. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

    Skyphos

    Report 8: Ordinary Lydians at Home: The Lydian Trenches of the House of Bronzes and Pactolus Cliff at Sardis (2021) Cat. PC 121
    Date
    Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age, Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian
    Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
    P60.432
    Material
    Ceramic
    Object Type
    Pottery
    Pottery Shape
    Skyphos
    Pottery Ware
    Lydian Painted - Streaky
    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
    Two fragments of a thin-walled skyphos with buff-fabric. Slightly inturned rim with tapering lip. Horizontal loop handle. Exterior: a narrow band at the rim. The handle is black and the handle zone has raised knobs on each side of the handles, also painted black. Small hole perforated in the top of each knob; one barely pierces through, the other just misses. Perhaps used to hang up the cup? In the handle zone, rectilinear motifs composed of dots. Below the handle zone, a narrow band followed by a much thicker one. Interior is black. Similar to rosette bowls.
    Dimensions
    H. 0.036, est. Diam. 0.10, Th. 0.002.
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    Author
    NHR

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