• r8-pc-127-10
    PC 127: East Greek jug (?). (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

East Greek jug (?)

Date
Late 9th–early 8th c BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P60.405
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Jug
Pottery Ware
East Greek
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
PC
Trench
PC
Locus
PC Beneath LVC/South
B-Grid Coordinates
*88
Findspot
Beneath LVC/South *88.00
Description

Body fragment of a jug with cream slip and black decoration. All registers are separated by horizontal lines. There is a solid field of black with a reserved section next to it; a horizontal zigzag; and a register of alternating opposed triangles and vertical lines. Exterior is smoothed. Not local.

Late ninth–early eighth century.

Dimensions
H. 0.074, W. 0.05, Th. 0.008.
Comments
See Also
Bibliography
Referred to in Hanfmann, “Sardis 1960” p. 23, n. 29.
Author
NHR