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PC 138: Globular cooking pot with “gold dust” slip. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Globular cooking pot with “gold dust” slip
- Date
- Context: 9th to 6th c BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P60.042
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Cooking Pot
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Cooking Ware
- 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
- Wall of a finely potted globular cooking pot and the base of a band handle, squared at bottom of handle. Surface covered with a gold-colored micaceous slip (Gold Dust ware). Red clay. Had been used for cooking, as indicated by blackened lower portion.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.125, W. 0.13, W. of handle 0.042, est. Diam. 22–23, Th. 0.003–0.006.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- NHR