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    PC 123: Bichrome dish. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Bichrome dish

Report 8: Ordinary Lydians at Home: The Lydian Trenches of the House of Bronzes and Pactolus Cliff at Sardis (2021) Cat. PC 123
Date
Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age, Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P60.459
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Dish
Pottery Ware
Lydian Painted - White Bichrome - Patterned
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
PC
Trench
PC
Locus
PC Beneath LVC/North
B-Grid Coordinates
*90 - 89.5
Findspot
Below LVC/North *90.00–89.50
Description
Wide flat rim fragment, turning into the body of a dish. Exterior: a dark red slip with a band of black wiggly lines made by a multiple brush, bordered at top and bottom by black lines. Interior: dark red slip, with a band of thick white paint, bordered at top and bottom by a black line. Within the white band, a checkerboard and black line. Below carination, a trace of another black horizontal line. Burnished inside and out.
Dimensions
H. 0.051, W. 0.056, Th. 0.009.
Comments
See Also
Bibliography
Author
NHR

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