• r8-pc-28-10
    PC 28: Pithos with graffito. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

    Pithos with graffito

    Date
    Context: 9th to 6th c BC, Lydian
    Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
    P60.197
    Material
    Ceramic
    Object Type
    Pottery
    Pottery Shape
    Pithos
    Pottery Ware
    Lydian Plainware
    Pottery Attribution
    Site
    Sardis
    Sector
    PC
    Trench
    PC
    Locus
    PC Zone 3 Diagonal Cut
    B-Grid Coordinates
    *88
    Findspot
    Zone 3, diagonal cut, at X *88.00
    Description

    Rounded ledge rim fragment of pithos projects outward from narrower neck, and was applied separately to the top of the neck, which flares outward toward the shoulder. A groove at join of neck to shoulder. On neck, two incised graffiti, each made with deep grooves while the clay was wet: at left, two short lines of a larger mark; at right, two diagonal lines crossing at a point, and two vertical lines at left and right of the diagonals, making what looks like two triangles meeting at a point.

    [It is not now clear where X was in the diagonal cut.]

    Dimensions
    H. 0.105, Diam. 0.18, Th. 0.018.
    Comments
    See Also
    Bibliography
    Hanfmann, “Sardis 1960,” p. 24, fig. 10.
    Author
    NHR