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PC 139: Bichrome open vessel. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Bichrome open vessel
- Date
- Context: 9th to 6th c BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P60.046
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Open vessel
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Painted - White Bichrome - Patterned
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- PC
- Trench
- PC
- Locus
- PC SVC
- B-Grid Coordinates
- *90.5 - 89.75
- Findspot
- North of SVC *90.50–89.75
- Description
- Upper body fragment of open vessel. Surface slipped in a pinkish-white color, with red Vs and the beginning of inverted Vs below, to make a repeated X pattern. Vertical lines and a diamond pattern to the right. Two broader bands in red with two wavy black lines on at least one of them. Interior red-slipped.
- Dimensions
- W. 0.05, H. 0.032, Th. 0.006.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- NHR