Pithos with graffito
- Date
- Context: 9th to 6th c BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P60.197
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Pithos
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Plainware
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- PC
- Trench
- PC
- Locus
- PC Zone 3 Diagonal Cut
- B-Grid Coordinates
- *88
- Findspot
- Zone 3, diagonal cut, at X *88.00
- Description
Rounded ledge rim fragment of pithos projects outward from narrower neck, and was applied separately to the top of the neck, which flares outward toward the shoulder. A groove at join of neck to shoulder. On neck, two incised graffiti, each made with deep grooves while the clay was wet: at left, two short lines of a larger mark; at right, two diagonal lines crossing at a point, and two vertical lines at left and right of the diagonals, making what looks like two triangles meeting at a point.
[It is not now clear where X was in the diagonal cut.]
- Dimensions
- H. 0.105, Diam. 0.18, Th. 0.018.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Hanfmann, “Sardis 1960,” p. 24, fig. 10.
- Author
- NHR