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    PC 13: Orientalizing East Greek or Island jug. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

    Orientalizing East Greek or Island jug

    Report 8: Ordinary Lydians at Home: The Lydian Trenches of the House of Bronzes and Pactolus Cliff at Sardis (2021) Cat. PC 13
    Date
    Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age, Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian
    Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
    P60.080
    Material
    Ceramic
    Object Type
    Pottery
    Pottery Shape
    Oinochoe
    Pottery Ware
    East Greek - Orientalizing
    Pottery Attribution
    Site
    Sardis
    Sector
    PC
    Trench
    PC
    Locus
    PC Zone 1, PC Zone 3
    B-Grid Coordinates
    *89.25
    Findspot
    Zone 3 to *89.25 and Zone 1 *90.00
    Description
    Globular body of a jug of orangish-buff fabric with a broad-based foot. Cream slip on exterior of vessel with black painted decoration consisting of thicker and thinner horizontal black bands with a reserved band of continuous interlaced loops at the widest part of the belly. The exterior of the disc foot is decorated with two narrow bands with standing black rays. The interior of the foot has a black band. Compare PC 53.
    Dimensions
    H. 0.13, Diam. of foot 0.13, Th. 0.007.
    Comments
    See Also
    Bibliography
    Hanfmann, “Sardis 1960” p. 22 compares it to Schiering 1957, pp. 8f., pls. 3:2, 4f., dated ca. 650 BC.
    Author
    NHR

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