• r8-pc-123-10
    PC 123: Bichrome dish. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

    Bichrome dish

    Report 8: Ordinary Lydians at Home: The Lydian Trenches of the House of Bronzes and Pactolus Cliff at Sardis (2021) Cat. PC 123
    Date
    Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age, Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian
    Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
    P60.459
    Material
    Ceramic
    Object Type
    Pottery
    Pottery Shape
    Dish
    Pottery Ware
    Lydian Painted - White Bichrome - Patterned
    Pottery Attribution
    Site
    Sardis
    Sector
    PC
    Trench
    PC
    Locus
    PC Beneath LVC/North
    B-Grid Coordinates
    *90 - 89.5
    Findspot
    Below LVC/North *90.00–89.50
    Description
    Wide flat rim fragment, turning into the body of a dish. Exterior: a dark red slip with a band of black wiggly lines made by a multiple brush, bordered at top and bottom by black lines. Interior: dark red slip, with a band of thick white paint, bordered at top and bottom by a black line. Within the white band, a checkerboard and black line. Below carination, a trace of another black horizontal line. Burnished inside and out.
    Dimensions
    H. 0.051, W. 0.056, Th. 0.009.
    Comments
    See Also
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    Author
    NHR

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