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    Overview of wall fragment. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Late Protocorinthian Kotyle Fragment

Date
Ca. 650-630 BC., Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P87.082
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Kotyle?
Pottery Ware
Late Protocorinthian
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
ByzFort
Trench
ByzFort 87.NE
Locus
ByzFort 87.NE Locus 1
B-Grid Coordinates
E684 - E689 / S328 - S333 ca *182.7
Description
Wall fragment. Exterior: scale pattern, with portions of seven rows remaining. The scales alternate rows of black scales with wide borders created by two sets of parallel incisions, and red scales with narrow black borders created by a single set of parallel incisions. The incisions are nicely executed. The ends of the scales usually meet but occasionally overlap. Compass points. Interior glazed. Glaze: black and worn in places, with added red. Clay: hard and fine. Pinkish buff.
Dimensions
P.H. 0.024; P.W. 0.042; Th. 0.004
Comments
Cf. Cor 35, Cor 36
See Also
Bibliography
Author
JS