• r8-pc-126-10
    PC 126: East Greek jug. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

    East Greek jug

    Report 8: Ordinary Lydians at Home: The Lydian Trenches of the House of Bronzes and Pactolus Cliff at Sardis (2021) Cat. PC 126
    Date
    Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age, Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian
    Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
    P60.404
    Material
    Ceramic
    Object Type
    Pottery
    Pottery Shape
    Jug
    Pottery Ware
    East Greek
    Pottery Attribution
    Site
    Sardis
    Sector
    PC
    Trench
    PC
    Locus
    PC Beneath LVC/South
    B-Grid Coordinates
    *88
    Findspot
    Beneath LVC/South *88.00
    Description
    Three fragments of the body of an East Greek jug. A diamond with four smaller hatched diamonds within the larger one. Three vertical lines to one side of these patterns, and then the beginning of a solid red field of color at the left. Above this are two horizontal lines and then diagonally hatched triangles. At the carination from lower to upper body: vertical lines alternating with solid opposed triangles. Exterior is polished and shows traces of burning. Clay is gray, not local. Exterior colors are red on buff.
    Dimensions
    H. 0.0855, W. 0.052, Th. 0.003–0.006.
    Comments
    See Also
    Bibliography
    See Friis-Johansen 1958, p. 119, fig. 209a–b; Boardman 1967, pl. 49, esp. no. 554.
    Author
    NHR

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