Fragment of glazed sgraffito bowl
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 231
- Date
- Probably fourteenth or fifteenth century AD, Islamic
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- Uninv. PN 05/vii/62 (IP 59)
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Bowl
- Pottery Ware
- Sgraffito Ware
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- PN
- Description
- Large fragment of thickly potted, color splashed sgraffito bowl with low, flaring foot ring, deep, concave sides, and everted rim. Body of porous, coarse, fairly hard, yellowish red (Munsell 5YR 5/6) earthenware. Slipped on both interior and exterior down to foot with white slip. Slip incised on interior with pattern consisting from center of leafy roundel enclosed in a pair of narrow, concentric rings, a second pair of narrow, concentric rings, a border of rosettes enclosed in circles and arcs, and finally, just below the rim, a third pair of narrow rings. Glazed on interior and on exterior down to foot with thick, clear and green pigmented glazes which have run together in firing to form an irregular, mottled pattern. Some crackle. Estimated diameter of rim 22.9 cm; diameter of foot ring 9.4 cm, height 12.4 cm.
- Comments
- From Sardis, excavation sector PN. Crane: dated by location in lower Turkish level in PN and by close association with “Miletus” ware.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- H. Crane, “The Glazed Pottery of the Turkish Period from Sardis,” unpublished manusript (1977), 13, 55 no. 50.
- Author
- CHG