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    PC 28: Pithos with graffito. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

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