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    PC 30: Part of thick dish (?) painted in Black on Red. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Part of thick dish (?) painted in Black on Red

Date
9th c BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P13.069
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Dish
Pottery Ware
Lydian Painted - Black on Red - Patterned
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
PC
Trench
PC
Locus
PC Zone 3 Diagonal Cut
B-Grid Coordinates
*88.5 - 88
Findspot
*88.50–88.00
Description

Black on Red painted designs on the upper side of a thick dish or lid. A series of diagonally hatched diamonds between horizontal lines, with short lines in the interstices between the diamonds, on top and bottom. A second horizontal line, with opposed triangles toward the center of the dish. Underside is red-slipped.

Lydian IV, Geometric. Ninth century.

Dimensions
H. 0.06, W. 0.045, Th. 0.01.
Comments
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Author
NHR