• r8-pc-45-10
    PC 45: Imported painted bowl. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

    Imported painted bowl

    Date
    Context: 9th to 6th c BC, Lydian
    Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
    P60.127
    Material
    Ceramic
    Object Type
    Pottery
    Pottery Shape
    Bowl
    Pottery Ware
    Imported
    Pottery Attribution
    Site
    Sardis
    Sector
    PC
    Trench
    PC
    Locus
    PC Zone 2
    B-Grid Coordinates
    *89
    Findspot
    Zone 2 *89.00
    Description

    Rim and upper body of an imported deep bowl. A horizontal line at the inverted rim. Vertical lines below rim continue into the slightly streaky black area below the reserved upper portion of the wall. Horizontal lines in what must have been the center of the bowl under the rim. Traces of five diagonal lines, apparently made with a multiple brush, within reserved panel near the rim. Interior streaky red glaze.

    Dimensions
    H. 0.05, Diam. 0.14–0.15, Th. 0.0055.
    Comments
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    Author
    NHR