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PC 89: Krater with a horizontal loop handle. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Krater with a horizontal loop handle
- Date
- Context: 9th to 6th c BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P60.154
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Krater
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Painted - Red on Buff
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- PC
- Trench
- PC
- Locus
- PC Zone 1
- B-Grid Coordinates
- *88.9
- Findspot
- Zone 1 *88.90 (middle of trench against north end at Wall 7)
- Description
- Body fragment of a red-on-buff painted krater with the beginning of a horizontal loop handle, which is unusual. Handle painted in streaky red. Horizontal line at top of handle, and three below it. Then apparently a solid area of the same streaky glaze. Interior: Thick horizontal bands of red paint, separated by a reserved band (slipped). Micaceous.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.13, W. 0.08, Th. 0.01.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- NHR