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PC 105: Pithos with graffito. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Pithos with graffito
- Date
- Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age, Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P60.465
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Pithos
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Plainware
- 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
- Thick-walled body fragment of a pithos. Coarse red clay. Two small raised bands between which is a symbol resembling an X with an additional extra diagonal line running from the bottom half of the X and another extra short diagonal line at the top half of the X.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.105, W. 0.12, Th. 0.017; Interwoven letters: H. 0.04, W. 0.05.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- NHR