• r8-pc-42-10
    PC 42: Cup or bowl. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

    Cup or bowl

    Report 8: Ordinary Lydians at Home: The Lydian Trenches of the House of Bronzes and Pactolus Cliff at Sardis (2021) Cat. PC 42
    Date
    Context: 9th to 6th c BC, Lydian
    Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
    P13.046
    Material
    Ceramic
    Object Type
    Pottery
    Pottery Shape
    Cup
    Pottery Ware
    Lydian Painted - Red on Buff
    Pottery Attribution
    Site
    Sardis
    Sector
    PC
    Trench
    PC
    Locus
    PC Zone 2
    B-Grid Coordinates
    *88.6 - 87.8
    Findspot
    Zone 2 *88.6–87.8 at east end of walls
    Description

    A rim fragment of a cup or bowl with purple paint on buff. Exterior: a line below the rim, and concentric circles below that. Surface has a shiny micaceous wash. Interior red-slipped.

    Dimensions
    H. 0.0335, est. Diam. 0.15, Th. 0.0035.
    Comments
    See Also
    Bibliography
    Author
    NHR

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