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    PC 137: Black on Red jug. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Black on Red jug

Date
7th c BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P60.039
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Jug
Pottery Ware
Lydian Painted - Black on Red - Patterned
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
PC
Trench
PC
Locus
PC SVC
B-Grid Coordinates
*89.87 - 89.75
Findspot
West of SVC *89.87–89.75
Description

Rim with a trace of the handle, neck, and upper body of a jug. Rim is not quite round, may show the start of a trefoil mouth. Slightly outward tilted straight-sided neck, with sharply flaring shoulder of a finely potted squat jug. Neck has a series of vertical black wiggly lines made with a four-tipped multiple brush, black on a red slip. Horizontal lines, one at bend to shoulder, one just above. More of the same wiggly lines on shoulder, again in groups of four lines each. This brush had a wider gap in the middle, i.e., two brush heads and two more brush heads, all used together. Interior slipped.

Seventh century.

Dimensions
H. 0.055, Diam. 0.08, Th. 0.003.
Comments
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Author
NHR