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    PC 113: Large Black on Red krater. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Large Black on Red krater

Date
Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age, Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P60.435
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Krater
Pottery Ware
Lydian Painted - Black on Red - Patterned
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
PC
Trench
PC
Locus
PC Beneath LVC/North
B-Grid Coordinates
*89.5 - 88
Findspot
Beneath LVC/North *89.50–88.00
Description
Rim and body fragment of large krater. Ledge rim projects outward. Upper body covered with Black on Red decoration. Below the rim, two overlapping horizontal bands. Below, squares with crosshatching alternating with reserved squares. In the register below another thick black band, the same pattern but alternating. At carination, another thick black band and the beginnings of pendent concentric semicircles.
Dimensions
H. 0.075, Diam. 0.38, Th. 0.007.
Comments
See Also
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Author
NHR