• latw-226-1
    Fragments of Byzantine pottery, Nos. 225-227. No. 226: Cream Glazed fine sgraffito dish. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Cream glazed fine sgraffito bowl

Date
Twelfth century AD, Byzantine
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
Uninv. ACT 29/vii/62 BP 02
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Bowl
Pottery Ware
Sgraffito Ware
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
B
Trench
AcT
B-Grid Coordinates
Acropolis Grid: W 25-W 30/S 8-S 5; * 403.53-402
Description
Fragments from the center of a bowl. Interior, pale yellow glaze with fine sgraffito decoration in brown. Surrounding a plain center is a border, framed by two narrow bands, which features a pattern of two continuous curvilinear ribbons, one of swages and “behind” it another of undulant curves.
Comments
From Sardis, excavation sector Building B (Roman Bath-Gymnasium complex). A similar pattern motif decorates an open vase now in Athens, Benaki Museum; Papanikola-Bakirtzi et al. 1999, 65, no. 105.
See Also
Bibliography
Author
CHG