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PC 81: Black on Red bowl. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Black on Red bowl
- Date
- Context: 9th to 6th c BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P13.030
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Bowl
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Painted - Black on Red - Patterned
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- PC
- Trench
- PC
- Locus
- PC Zone 1
- B-Grid Coordinates
- *88.75 - 88
- Findspot
- Zone 1 *88.75–88.00
- Description
- Rim and upper body fragment of a large Black on Red bowl. Outwardly turned rim has groups of radial lines (six in a group) made with a multiple brush on its flat top. Below rim, two bands preserved, bordered by horizontal lines. Within each band, vertical lines making squares, within which are wiggly lines made by the same six-headed multiple brush. Third zone, at carination, is not preserved. Interior and exterior red-slipped. Black glaze is elusive. One of two fragments from the same location, but with different profiles. See PC 82.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.063, est. Diam. 0.36, Th. 0.008–0.0125.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- NHR