Fragment of “Miletus Ware” bowl
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 229
- Date
- Late-fourteenth or fifteenth century AD, Islamic
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P64.017
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Bowl
- Pottery Ware
- “Miletus Ware”
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- PN
- Trench
- PN
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W260 - W265 / S345 - S350 *88.78
- Description
- Fragment of thickly potted “Miletus” ware bowl with low, flaring foot ring and high, concave sides; rim missing. Body of coarse, porous, pink (Munsell 7.5YR 7/4) earthenware with white slip on interior and on exterior to two cm. above the foot ring. Design underglaze painted in chocolate brown. Decoration limited to interior and consists from center of negative sunburst pattern enclosed by two concentric rings, a border of scrolling motifs, and finally, four concentric rings of varying breadth. Glazed on interior with clear glaze and on upper edge of exterior with greenish glaze. Some crackle and iridescence. Diameter of foot ring 7.2 cm.
- Comments
- From Sardis, excavation sector PN.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- H. Crane, “The Glazed Pottery of the Turkish Period from Sardis,” unpublished manusript (1977), 11-12, 44 no. 33.
- Author
- CHG