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PC 97: Bichrome skyphos krater. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Bichrome skyphos krater
- Date
- Context: 9th to 6th c BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P60.125
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Skyphos Krater
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Painted - Red Bichrome - Banded
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- PC
- Trench
- PC
- Locus
- PC Zone 1
- B-Grid Coordinates
- *90 - 89.5
- Findspot
- Zone 1 *90.00
- Description
- Fragment of a bichrome skyphos krater with flaring everted ledge rim. Interior of rim and top of ledge have red slip with black bands. The top of the rim is decorated with groups of black radial lines. Exterior of rim had been painted with white (now fugitive) and a zigzag line of black, now mostly gone, painted over the white. A black band at top and bottom of the white band. A thick red band at base of rim and at join to the shoulder; this is bordered on top and bottom by narrow, black lines. Concentric pendent hooks of eleven lines each decorate the shoulder of the vessel. Polished on the exterior. Interior has a reddish slip. Compare the pendent hooks on red Bichrome jug from HoB, HoB 620, and jar HoB 625.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.11, Diam. of outer rim 0.36, Th. 0.006.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- NHR