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    PC 9: Bichrome amphora. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

    Bichrome amphora

    Report 8: Ordinary Lydians at Home: The Lydian Trenches of the House of Bronzes and Pactolus Cliff at Sardis (2021) Cat. PC 9
    Date
    Context: 9th to 6th c BC, Lydian
    Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
    P60.052
    Material
    Ceramic
    Object Type
    Pottery
    Pottery Shape
    Amphora
    Pottery Ware
    Lydian Painted - Red Bichrome - Banded
    Pottery Attribution
    Site
    Sardis
    Sector
    PC
    Trench
    PC
    Locus
    PC Zone 4
    B-Grid Coordinates
    *89.74 - 89.54
    Findspot
    Zone 4 *89.74–89.54
    Description
    Rim, neck, and upper body of a white Bichrome amphora. Everted ledge rim with white slip on exterior of rim; slipped on top (worn). At join of short neck to body, an irregular thick black line. Below neck, a band of white slip bordered by a black band above and below, with a repeated pattern of wiggly vertical lines made by a six-headed multiple brush. Three more horizontal lines, black on red, below the white band. Not glazed or slipped on interior. Another fragment is from the shoulder of the same pot.
    Dimensions
    H. 0.08, W. 0.126, est. Diam. of rim 0.26–0.28, Th. 0.007.
    Comments
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    Author
    NHR

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