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PC 126: East Greek jug. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
East Greek jug
- Date
- Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age, Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P60.404
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Jug
- Pottery Ware
- East Greek
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- PC
- Trench
- PC
- Locus
- PC Beneath LVC/South
- B-Grid Coordinates
- *88
- Findspot
- Beneath LVC/South *88.00
- Description
- Three fragments of the body of an East Greek jug. A diamond with four smaller hatched diamonds within the larger one. Three vertical lines to one side of these patterns, and then the beginning of a solid red field of color at the left. Above this are two horizontal lines and then diagonally hatched triangles. At the carination from lower to upper body: vertical lines alternating with solid opposed triangles. Exterior is polished and shows traces of burning. Clay is gray, not local. Exterior colors are red on buff.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.0855, W. 0.052, Th. 0.003–0.006.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- See Friis-Johansen 1958, p. 119, fig. 209a–b; Boardman 1967, pl. 49, esp. no. 554.
- Author
- NHR