• r8-pc-127-10
    PC 127: East Greek jug (?). (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

    East Greek jug (?)

    Date
    Late 9th–early 8th c BC, Lydian
    Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
    P60.405
    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

    Body fragment of a jug with cream slip and black decoration. All registers are separated by horizontal lines. There is a solid field of black with a reserved section next to it; a horizontal zigzag; and a register of alternating opposed triangles and vertical lines. Exterior is smoothed. Not local.

    Late ninth–early eighth century.

    Dimensions
    H. 0.074, W. 0.05, Th. 0.008.
    Comments
    See Also
    Bibliography
    Referred to in Hanfmann, “Sardis 1960” p. 23, n. 29.
    Author
    NHR