• r8-pc-125-10
    PC 125: Bichrome lug handle. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

    Bichrome lug handle

    Report 8: Ordinary Lydians at Home: The Lydian Trenches of the House of Bronzes and Pactolus Cliff at Sardis (2021) Cat. PC 125
    Date
    Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age, Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian
    Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
    P60.403
    Material
    Ceramic
    Object Type
    Pottery
    Pottery Shape
    Handle
    Pottery Ware
    Lydian Painted - White Bichrome - Patterned
    Pottery Attribution
    Site
    Sardis
    Sector
    PC
    Trench
    PC
    Locus
    PC Beneath LVC/South
    B-Grid Coordinates
    *88
    Findspot
    Beneath LVC/South *88.00
    Description
    Large lug handle with hole in center. Orientation is unclear, but because the edge where it was attached is completely flat, perhaps it was one of two handles attached to a lid, or else one of two at the end of a flat “tray.” On one side of the handle a segment of pinkish-cream colored paint outlined in black with four crosshatched triangles. The same pinkish-cream color on the inside of the perforated hole. Triangles are not evenly sized nor spaced. Orange-red fabric with red slip. Red-slipped on other side. Smoothed on both sides.
    Dimensions
    H. 0.095, L. 0.05, H. 0.026.
    Comments
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    Author
    NHR

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