Pale Green Glazed fine sgraffito dish
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 227
- Date
- Twelfth to thirteenth centuries AD, Byzantine
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- Uninv. BP 09.1
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Dish
- Pottery Ware
- Sgraffito Ware
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- B
- B-Grid Coordinates
- ca. *90.00
- Description
- Fragmentary bowl. Interior, cream glaze with green-brown sgraffito decoration. A central disk features a cross with arms each terminating in a lily, and with intervals filled with fleurs-de-lis pointing inward and spaces filled with dark brown. At the outer edge, four narrow bands; at the rim, a broad band.
- Comments
- From Sardis, excavation sector Building B (Roman Bath-Gymnasium complex); recovered in 1958.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- CHG