• latw-229-1
    Fragments of Islamic pottery, Nos. 228-232. No. 229: Fragment of "Miletus Ware" Bowl. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Fragment of “Miletus Ware” bowl

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H. Crane, “The Glazed Pottery of the Turkish Period from Sardis,” unpublished manusript (1977), 11-12, 44 no. 33.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