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    Overview of body sherd. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Fragment of a Late Protocorinthian Vessel of Uncertain Shape

Date
Ca. 650-620 BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P59.311
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Uncertain
Pottery Ware
Late Protocorinthian
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
PC
Trench
PC
B-Grid Coordinates
ca. *92
Findspot
“Room of the Block”
Description

Late in LPC or early in TR. Small wall fragment with a slight curve. A feline (?) walking to right, paws incised, stands on a band of black glaze. The remainder of the fragment is decorated with lines and bands of added color on black glaze: two white, two red, followed by an area of black glaze; then two red, two white, followed by two bands of red. The overpaint is worn. Glaze: glossy and black. Clay: fine, smooth, and hard. Pinkish beige with a creamy exterior. Munsell nos.: body, 7.5 YR 8/4 (pink); exterior, 10 YR 8/4 (very pale brown).

Another very small wall fragment showing the legs and paws of a feline, uninv. HoB 19/vi/65, was found at W 2.00--8.00/S 103.00--107.00 *99.50--99.20. It probably dates late in LPC. Munsell nos.: body, 5 Y 6/3 (pale olive); exterior, 10 YR 7/3 (very pale brown).

Dimensions
P.H. 0.034; P.W. 0.025; Th. 0.004
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Author
JS