Cream glazed fine sgraffito bowl
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 226
- 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