• r8-pc-92-10
    PC 92: Black on Red stemmed dish, part of a canine ritual cache. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

    Black on Red stemmed dish, part of a canine ritual cache

    Date
    Probably before mid-6th c BC, Lydian
    Museum
    Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum
    Museum Inventory No.
    Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
    P60.082
    Material
    Ceramic
    Object Type
    Pottery
    Pottery Shape
    Stemmed Dish
    Pottery Ware
    Lydian Painted - Black on Red - Banded
    Pottery Attribution
    Site
    Sardis
    Sector
    PC
    Trench
    PC
    Locus
    PC Zone 1
    B-Grid Coordinates
    *89.8
    Findspot
    Zone 1 *89.80, near Wall 9
    Description

    Small stemmed shallow dish. Slightly flaring rim decorated with two lines. Numerous narrow spirals encircle the interior of the dish. On the exterior, one black line below the rim and three bands around the stemmed foot; otherwise only red slip.

    Lydian I, probably before mid-sixth century BC

    Dimensions
    H. 0.008, Diam. of rim 0.16, Diam. of foot 0.07, Th. 0.006.
    Comments
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    Author
    NHR