• r8-pc-137-10
    PC 137: Black on Red jug. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

    Black on Red jug

    Date
    7th c BC, Lydian
    Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
    P60.039
    Material
    Ceramic
    Object Type
    Pottery
    Pottery Shape
    Jug
    Pottery Ware
    Lydian Painted - Black on Red - Patterned
    Pottery Attribution
    Site
    Sardis
    Sector
    PC
    Trench
    PC
    Locus
    PC SVC
    B-Grid Coordinates
    *89.87 - 89.75
    Findspot
    West of SVC *89.87–89.75
    Description

    Rim with a trace of the handle, neck, and upper body of a jug. Rim is not quite round, may show the start of a trefoil mouth. Slightly outward tilted straight-sided neck, with sharply flaring shoulder of a finely potted squat jug. Neck has a series of vertical black wiggly lines made with a four-tipped multiple brush, black on a red slip. Horizontal lines, one at bend to shoulder, one just above. More of the same wiggly lines on shoulder, again in groups of four lines each. This brush had a wider gap in the middle, i.e., two brush heads and two more brush heads, all used together. Interior slipped.

    Seventh century.

    Dimensions
    H. 0.055, Diam. 0.08, Th. 0.003.
    Comments
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    Author
    NHR