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    PC 18: Orientalizing East Greek shallow bowl. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

    Orientalizing East Greek shallow bowl

    Report 8: Ordinary Lydians at Home: The Lydian Trenches of the House of Bronzes and Pactolus Cliff at Sardis (2021) Cat. PC 18
    Date
    Context: 9th to 6th c BC, Lydian
    Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
    P60.076
    Material
    Ceramic
    Object Type
    Pottery
    Pottery Shape
    Bowl
    Pottery Ware
    East Greek - Orientalizing
    Pottery Attribution
    Site
    Sardis
    Sector
    PC
    Trench
    PC
    Locus
    PC Zone 1, PC Zone 3
    B-Grid Coordinates
    *89.55
    Findspot
    *89.55 (below floor level) and Zone 1 *89.14
    Description
    Fragments of a shallow bowl with thickened rim. A cream-colored slip over the entire bowl, inside and out. Top and exterior of rim is red. Exterior: two red bands below rim. A broad register has a palmette with alternating black and red petals. Decorative spirals curve to the sides. Other motifs: part of a square pinwheel-like design and an Orientalizing pattern of floral designs of concentric petals and triangles. Below this, two thick bands above and below two registers of black squares filled with diagonal lines alternating with reserved squares. The tips of two rays, one of which may be red, preserved from the base. Interior: below the rim, a fleeting pattern of zigzags. A dark band below this, and at least two more dark bands. Colors altered by burning.
    Dimensions
    Diam. 0.40, H. 0.06, Th. 0.007.
    Comments
    See Also
    Bibliography
    Cf. Eilmann 1933.
    Author
    NHR

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