Small jug with gold wash
- Date
- Probably 9th c BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P60.173
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Juglet
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Painted
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- PC
- Trench
- PC
- Locus
- PC Zone 2
- B-Grid Coordinates
- *87.7
- Findspot
- Zone 2 test pit *87.70
- Description
Trefoil mouth and neck of a small jug. Buff fabric with micaceous gold wash. Neck decorated with four narrow brown bands, with streaky glaze between the top two bands. A narrow horizontal wave pattern between the second and third bands. Then a wide red painted band bordered by dark lines, top and bottom, where the body flares out. Traces of purple dots on the rim. Pronounced raised ridge where neck and shoulder of the vessel meet.
Lydian IV, probably ninth century BC
- Dimensions
- H. 0.075, Diam. of neck 0.11 at widest point, Th. 0.003.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- NHR