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    PC 104: Shoulder of Lydian jug. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Shoulder of Lydian jug

Date
Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age, Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P60.464
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Jug
Pottery Ware
Lydian Painted - Brown on Buff
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
PC
Trench
PC
Locus
PC Beneath LVC/North
B-Grid Coordinates
*87.5 - 87
Findspot
Beneath LVC/North *87.50–87.00
Description
Fragment of the shoulder of a small painted jug. Brown on Buff with parts of two large painted triangles preserved. One triangle filled with an oblique checkerboard pattern with brown and reserved diamonds. The other, with oblique crosshatching. Of typical Lydian color and fabric, which is here red, but burned.
Dimensions
L. 0.058, W. 0.075, Th. 0.006.
Comments
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Author
NHR