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    Bichrome pyxis. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Bichrome pyxis

Date
6th c BC?, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P60.445
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Pyxis
Pottery Ware
Lydian Painted - White Bichrome - Patterned
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
PC
Trench
PC
Locus
PC Beneath LVC/North
B-Grid Coordinates
*89.5 - 83
Findspot
Beneath LVC/North *89.50–88.00
Description

Body and shoulder fragments of a red Bichrome pyxis with a white slip. Large cylindrical body with tapering shoulder. Orange-red fabric with cream slip on exterior. A register of a horizontal, orange wavy line just below where the shoulder bends toward the neck. Bordered on either side with a light-gray (or in places, a dark brown) band. Below, a large register with a continuous series of diagonally crossing lines, each creating an X. Each X is outlined in light-gray and filled in orange with black diagonal lines. The diagonal lines cease where the two diagonal lines cross, creating a diamond shape. In the triangular spaces that each X leaves is either a triangle or a diamond. Both triangles and diamonds are obliquely crosshatched with a light-gray and orange line. Another wavy line, like that on the upper side, is found on the lower side. Smoothed on exterior and burnished on interior.

Cf. LATW, p. 474, cat. no. 87.

Dimensions
Largest fragment: H. 0.075, W. 0.125, Th. 0.008.
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Author
NHR