• r8-pc-95-10
    PC 95: Jug, part of a canine ritual cache. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

    Jug, part of a canine ritual cache

    Report 8: Ordinary Lydians at Home: The Lydian Trenches of the House of Bronzes and Pactolus Cliff at Sardis (2021) Cat. PC 95
    Date
    Probably before mid-6th c BC, Lydian
    Museum
    Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum
    Museum Inventory No.
    Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
    P60.084
    Material
    Ceramic
    Object Type
    Pottery
    Pottery Shape
    Chytra (not cooking)
    Pottery Ware
    Lydian Painted - Micaceous Wash
    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

    A complete red ware jug with globular body. Everted rim with ledge slanting inward. High swung band handle. Flat disc base. Exterior of vessel is burnished and is covered in a micaceous gold wash.

    Lydian I, probably before mid-sixth century BC

    Dimensions
    H. without handle 0.08, H. with handle 0.105, Diam. of rim 0.08, Diam. of base 0.04, W. of band handle 0.023.
    Comments
    See Also
    Bibliography
    Author
    NHR

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