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PC 112: Marbled skyphos with white slip and vertical red wiggly lines. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Marbled skyphos with white slip and vertical red wiggly lines
- Date
- 6th c BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P60.437
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Skyphos
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Painted - Marbled
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- PC
- Trench
- PC
- Locus
- PC Beneath LVC/North
- B-Grid Coordinates
- *89.5 - 88
- Findspot
- Beneath LVC/North *89.50–88.00
- Description
- Rim, handle, and body fragments of a large skyphos. Inturned rim with a tapering lip. Exterior is slipped in white. A reddish-orange band along the rim. Body has sections of vertical red wiggly lines made with a ten-headed multiple brush, making a marbled effect. The horizontal loop handle also decorated with this same decoration. Three small holes at the broken edge of the body on the right are from an ancient repair. Interior is streaky black.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.095, W. 0.072, est. Diam. 0.14, Th. 0.004.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- NHR