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PC 55: Terracotta sima tile with scroll pattern. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Terracotta sima tile with scroll pattern
- Date
- Ca. 580–540 BC, Lydian
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 4956
- Museum Inventory No.
- 4956
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- T60.002
- Material
- Terracotta
- Object Type
- Architectural Terracotta
- Architectural Terracotta Type
- Sima
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- PC
- Trench
- PC
- Locus
- PC Zone 2
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W235 / S602 *90.5
- Findspot
- Found at X in Zone 2 *90.50
- Description
Terracotta tile with two opposing black scrolls and a three-petalled palmette between them. The scrolls have a red knob at both terminals. Alternating black and red chevrons below. This is the scroll of a star-and-scroll sima. For a more complete example (although in poor condition), see Ramage, Sardis M5, cat. no. 42.
Ca. 580–540 BC
[The location of X is unknown.]
- Dimensions
- H. 0.18, W. 0.16, Th. 0.035.
- Comments
- See Also
- See also: LATW Cat. 58
- Bibliography
- Hanfmann, “Sardis 1960,” p. 21, fig. 8; Ramage, Sardis M5, cat. no. 43. LATW, p. 454, cat. no. 58.
- Author
- NHR