• r8-pc-31-10
    PC 31: Shallow bowl. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Shallow bowl

Date
Context: 9th to 6th c BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P13.029
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

Rim and body of a Black on Red shallow bowl. Interior: a series of concentric circles around the middle. Exterior: Concentric semicircles just below the rim, using the same decoration and the same brushes as on the interior. Circles are made with a three-tipped multiple brush, and the inner circle is done by hand; a dot added in the middle of the circles. Slip is somewhat streaky, inside and out. Compare PC 109 and Fig. 1.10.

Dimensions
H. 0.055, est. Diam. 0.028, Th. 0.008–0.005.
Comments
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Author
NHR