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PC 7: Lydian imitation of a Greek Geometric krater. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Lydian imitation of a Greek Geometric krater
- Date
- Context: 9th to 6th c BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P60.106
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Krater
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Painted - Black on Buff
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- PC
- Trench
- PC
- Locus
- PC Zone 4
- B-Grid Coordinates
- *88.5
- Findspot
- Zone 4 *88.50
- Description
- Everted ledge rim with groups of four radiating lines. Reserved area below rim filled with large red blobs with a small black dot in each. To the left of the red blobs, the neck is painted streaky red, same as interior. Below the red blobs, the first of the three horizontal lines is red, the next two horizontal lines are light brown streaky glaze. Below, a reserved panel with four vertical lines; then a diamond divided into four squares, with a dot in each. Short lines around diamond on each side. Likely a tail next to the diamond. Interior streaky red glaze. Models for red blobs, unusual in Lydian pottery, would have come from Samos or Exochi.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.052, Diam. 0.32–0.33, Th. 0.005.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- NHR