Dark glaze sgraffito bowl
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 230
- Date
- Probably fourteenth or fifteenth century AD, Islamic
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- Uninv. PN 09/vii/62 (IP 72)
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Bowl
- Pottery Ware
- Sgraffito Ware
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- PN
- Description
- Largely complete high-footed small bowl. Earthenware darkened from reducing atmosphere in kiln or accidental burning. Slip now dark grey. Inside, incised patterns: from center, a six-armed cross with double half rosettes between arms, all inscribed within two concentric circles; outside the circles, pairs of curved lines to right and left forming arches, with a double half rosette inside and outside each arch; just inside the rim, a pair of rings. Outside, a wave pattern; below, just above the foot, a pair of rings. The bowl is fully glazed and slipped both inside and outside except for the foot ring. Glaze colors are indeterminate; in the present condition they appear dark green and black. Remains of separator burned into center of bowl interior. Diameter of rim 15.2 cm; diameter of foot 6.7 cm, height 7.1 cm.
- Comments
- From Sardis, excavation sector PN.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- H. Crane, unpublished catalog of Islamic pottery at Sardis (1975), no. IP 72.
- Author
- CHG