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PC 18: Orientalizing East Greek shallow bowl. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Orientalizing East Greek shallow bowl
- Date
- Context: 9th to 6th c BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P60.076
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Bowl
- Pottery Ware
- East Greek - Orientalizing
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- PC
- Trench
- PC
- Locus
- PC Zone 1, PC Zone 3
- B-Grid Coordinates
- *89.55
- Findspot
- *89.55 (below floor level) and Zone 1 *89.14
- Description
- Fragments of a shallow bowl with thickened rim. A cream-colored slip over the entire bowl, inside and out. Top and exterior of rim is red. Exterior: two red bands below rim. A broad register has a palmette with alternating black and red petals. Decorative spirals curve to the sides. Other motifs: part of a square pinwheel-like design and an Orientalizing pattern of floral designs of concentric petals and triangles. Below this, two thick bands above and below two registers of black squares filled with diagonal lines alternating with reserved squares. The tips of two rays, one of which may be red, preserved from the base. Interior: below the rim, a fleeting pattern of zigzags. A dark band below this, and at least two more dark bands. Colors altered by burning.
- Dimensions
- Diam. 0.40, H. 0.06, Th. 0.007.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Cf. Eilmann 1933.
- Author
- NHR