• r8-pc-89-10
    PC 89: Krater with a horizontal loop handle. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

    Krater with a horizontal loop handle

    Report 8: Ordinary Lydians at Home: The Lydian Trenches of the House of Bronzes and Pactolus Cliff at Sardis (2021) Cat. PC 89
    Date
    Context: 9th to 6th c BC, Lydian
    Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
    P60.154
    Material
    Ceramic
    Object Type
    Pottery
    Pottery Shape
    Krater
    Pottery Ware
    Lydian Painted - Red on Buff
    Pottery Attribution
    Site
    Sardis
    Sector
    PC
    Trench
    PC
    Locus
    PC Zone 1
    B-Grid Coordinates
    *88.9
    Findspot
    Zone 1 *88.90 (middle of trench against north end at Wall 7)
    Description
    Body fragment of a red-on-buff painted krater with the beginning of a horizontal loop handle, which is unusual. Handle painted in streaky red. Horizontal line at top of handle, and three below it. Then apparently a solid area of the same streaky glaze. Interior: Thick horizontal bands of red paint, separated by a reserved band (slipped). Micaceous.
    Dimensions
    H. 0.13, W. 0.08, Th. 0.01.
    Comments
    See Also
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    Author
    NHR

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