• r8-pc-131-10
    PC 131: Geometric vessel. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Geometric vessel

Report 8: Ordinary Lydians at Home: The Lydian Trenches of the House of Bronzes and Pactolus Cliff at Sardis (2021) Cat. PC 131
Date
Context: 9th to 6th c BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P60.408
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Closed Vessel
Pottery Ware
East Greek Geometric?
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
PC
Trench
PC
Locus
PC Beneath LVC/South
B-Grid Coordinates
*87.4
Findspot
Beneath LVC/South *87.40
Description
Thick-walled fragment of a Brown on Buff closed vessel. Exterior decoration consists of two horizontal bands with vertical crosshatched meanders and two horizontal bands with obliquely crosshatched triangles. These two different designs alternate with one another. Exterior smoothed. Interior unslipped. Phrygianizing in coloration and in the miniature crosshatching.
Dimensions
H. 0.07, W. 0.11, Th. 0.013.
Comments
See Also
Bibliography
Hanfmann, “Sardis 1960.”
Author
NHR

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