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PC 9: Bichrome amphora. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Bichrome amphora
- Date
- Context: 9th to 6th c BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P60.052
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Amphora
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Painted - Red Bichrome - Banded
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- PC
- Trench
- PC
- Locus
- PC Zone 4
- B-Grid Coordinates
- *89.74 - 89.54
- Findspot
- Zone 4 *89.74–89.54
- Description
- Rim, neck, and upper body of a white Bichrome amphora. Everted ledge rim with white slip on exterior of rim; slipped on top (worn). At join of short neck to body, an irregular thick black line. Below neck, a band of white slip bordered by a black band above and below, with a repeated pattern of wiggly vertical lines made by a six-headed multiple brush. Three more horizontal lines, black on red, below the white band. Not glazed or slipped on interior. Another fragment is from the shoulder of the same pot.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.08, W. 0.126, est. Diam. of rim 0.26–0.28, Th. 0.007.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- NHR