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PC 20: Black on Red jar. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Black on Red jar
- Date
- Context: 9th to 6th c BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P13.067
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Jar
- Pottery Ware
- Uncertain
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- PC
- Trench
- PC
- Locus
- PC Zone 3 Diagonal Cut
- B-Grid Coordinates
- *88 - 87
- Findspot
- *88.00–87.00
- Description
- Fragment of the neck and shoulder of a Black on Red jar; the dark color is purplish. Smooth curve from neck to shoulder. Neck decorated with diagonally crosshatched triangles, with diagonal lines bordering the triangles between horizontal lines. On the shoulder, opposed triangles or chevrons between horizontal lines. Interior unglazed, with pronounced ridge marks from the potting.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.095, W. 0.075, Th. 0.04.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- NHR