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PC 1: Round-mouthed jug. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Round-mouthed jug
- Date
- Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age, Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P60.193
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Round-Mouthed Jug
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Painted - Black on Red - Patterned
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- PC
- Trench
- PC
- Locus
- PC Zone 4
- B-Grid Coordinates
- *87.5
- Findspot
- Zone 4 *87.50 [Just before digging test pit]
- Description
Neck, handle, and shoulder of a jug of orange-buff fabric. Vertical rim with a tapered lip. Band handle is high swung and connects from rim to shoulder. Just below exterior rim, a trace of orange-red slip. Black painted decoration on neck and shoulder: two registers demarcated by four narrow black lines and one band of orange red slip between upper two and lower two lines. In each register, a series of pendent concentric three-quarter circles made of three lines; those in the upper band have a dot at the center. Smoothed on exterior. Wide band of orange-red slip on interior below rim. Shape related to Phrygian jugs.
Analyzed by Kealhofer and Grave (Kealhofer, Grave, and Marsh 2013: sample AIA 929).
- Dimensions
- H. with handle 0.072, W. 0.085, W. of band handle 0.019, Th. 0.005, est. Diam. 0.095–0.105.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- NHR