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PC 59: Pithos. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Pithos
- Date
- Context: 9th to 6th c BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P13.049
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Pithos
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Plainware
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- PC
- Trench
- PC
- Locus
- PC Zone 2
- B-Grid Coordinates
- *90.7
- Findspot
- Zone 2 *90.70
- Description
- Thick-walled pithos fragment preserves a deeply incised rope pattern made by pressing in an actual rope, or else an object (a stick?) repeatedly impressed on the diagonal. A second smaller rope pattern lightly impressed in a second zone above the first.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.083, L. 0.0945, W. 018, Th. 0.02.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- NHR