Painted krater
- Date
- 7th c BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P60.130
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Krater
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Painted - Orientalizing
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- PC
- Trench
- PC
- Locus
- PC Zone 2
- B-Grid Coordinates
- *88.6 - 88.35
- Findspot
- Zone 2 *88.60–88.35
- Description
Eight fragments of a large Orientalizing krater, reddish-brown on buff. Outlines of fish swimming to right on left side of attached handle. Alternating dark red and buff bands on rim. Alternating colors also on handle, which has a thumb rest on top, and had a boss (now missing) at bottom. The same alternating colors on a raised band below the fish. Lower part of krater was slipped, as was the interior. Lydian manufacture. A second krater fragment, P60.187, with similar but not exactly the same profile, and with completely different surface treatment, was found at *88.20–88.00.
Early seventh century at the earliest.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.24, W. 0.18, Th. 0.01.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- NHR