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PC 102: Bichrome lid. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Bichrome lid
- Date
- Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age, Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P60.079
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Lid
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Painted - White Bichrome - Patterned
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- PC
- Trench
- PC
- Locus
- PC Zone 1
- B-Grid Coordinates
- *90.5 - 90.15
- Findspot
- Zone 1 *90.50–90.15
- Description
- Reddish-buff fragment of a thick-walled shallow lid. Cream-colored slip on exterior. Nearer the outer edge, two concentric bands in red; between them, smaller black concentric circles and in the center of the design, a black dot. Toward the center of lid, bands of black, then red, then a reserved cream band, then a wider red band with two black bands (one faint) on top. Unglazed on interior. Evidence of burning on exterior and interior.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.08, W. 0.033, Th. 0.012.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- NHR