• r8-pc-131-10
    PC 131: Geometric vessel. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

    Geometric vessel

    Report 8: Ordinary Lydians at Home: The Lydian Trenches of the House of Bronzes and Pactolus Cliff at Sardis (2021) Cat. PC 131
    Date
    Context: 9th to 6th c BC, Lydian
    Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
    P60.408
    Material
    Ceramic
    Object Type
    Pottery
    Pottery Shape
    Closed Vessel
    Pottery Ware
    East Greek Geometric?
    Pottery Attribution
    Site
    Sardis
    Sector
    PC
    Trench
    PC
    Locus
    PC Beneath LVC/South
    B-Grid Coordinates
    *87.4
    Findspot
    Beneath LVC/South *87.40
    Description
    Thick-walled fragment of a Brown on Buff closed vessel. Exterior decoration consists of two horizontal bands with vertical crosshatched meanders and two horizontal bands with obliquely crosshatched triangles. These two different designs alternate with one another. Exterior smoothed. Interior unslipped. Phrygianizing in coloration and in the miniature crosshatching.
    Dimensions
    H. 0.07, W. 0.11, Th. 0.013.
    Comments
    See Also
    Bibliography
    Hanfmann, “Sardis 1960.”
    Author
    NHR

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