• r8-pc-91-10
    PC 91: Ephesianizing ware. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

    Ephesianizing ware

    Report 8: Ordinary Lydians at Home: The Lydian Trenches of the House of Bronzes and Pactolus Cliff at Sardis (2021) Cat. PC 91
    Date
    Context: 9th to 6th c BC, Lydian
    Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
    P60.147
    Material
    Ceramic
    Object Type
    Pottery
    Pottery Shape
    Bowl
    Pottery Ware
    Lydian Painted - Ephesianizing
    Pottery Attribution
    Site
    Sardis
    Sector
    PC
    Trench
    PC
    Locus
    PC Zone 1
    B-Grid Coordinates
    *89.15
    Findspot
    Zone 1 *89.15
    Description
    A small fragment from the rim of an Ephesianizing bowl. Rounded rim, black on top, inside, and outside. Exterior: white slip overall, with a delicate dogtooth pattern of short vertical black lines, alternating upwards and downwards between two horizontal black lines. Worn at carination. A black line just above carination, and traces of two beneath it. Interior: white slipped, painted with two brown horizontal lines, between which are squares with diagonal crosshatching: one in a grayish color and the other in orangey-red. Fine and delicate painting. Coloring is close to PC 115. Compare also HoB 454, with same decoration on exterior.
    Dimensions
    H. 0.027, est. Diam. 0.28, Th. 0.004.
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    Author
    NHR

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