• r8-pc-98-10
    PC 98: Ephesianizing dish. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

    Ephesianizing dish

    Report 8: Ordinary Lydians at Home: The Lydian Trenches of the House of Bronzes and Pactolus Cliff at Sardis (2021) Cat. PC 98
    Date
    Context: 9th to 6th c BC, Lydian
    Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
    P60.078
    Material
    Ceramic
    Object Type
    Pottery
    Pottery Shape
    Dish
    Pottery Ware
    Lydian Painted - Ephesianizing
    Pottery Attribution
    Site
    Sardis
    Sector
    PC
    Trench
    PC
    Locus
    PC Zone 1
    B-Grid Coordinates
    *90.5 - 90.15
    Findspot
    Zone 1 *90.15
    Description
    A small sherd, decorated on both sides, imitating Ephesian ware. Overall red-slipped with white paint on both sides. Exterior: a band of white with black lines making a bracket meander between two black lines. Toward center, dark red slip with radiating short lines. The beginning of the foot marked by an indented groove filled with black. Interior: Overall white slip with, again, the bracket meander pattern, and a red band with radiating black lines and purple (?) blobs, between the two black borders of the band.
    Dimensions
    L. 0.035, W. 0.035, Th. 0.007.
    Comments
    See Also
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    Author
    NHR

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