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PC 109: Bichrome dish. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Bichrome dish
- Date
- Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age, Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P60.455
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Stemmed Dish
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Painted - White Bichrome - Patterned
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- PC
- Trench
- PC
- Locus
- PC Beneath LVC/North
- B-Grid Coordinates
- *88
- Findspot
- Beneath LVC/North *88.00
- Description
- Rim and two body fragments of a Lydian bichrome dish. Flat ledge rim, painted on top with black or dark red squares on a white slip. Exterior: white band covers area below rim. Orange-red concentric circles closely spaced on this white band, each with a dot in the middle. The inner circle is hand-drawn. Dark red slip below carination, and then three white bands. The middle one of these (the widest) has the same concentric circles as those below rim. Red slip is dark. Interior: four white bands over dark red slip. The first and third bands (again the widest) have the same pattern of concentric circles.
- Dimensions
- Diam. of rim 0.22, Th. 0.007.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- NHR