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    PC 13: Orientalizing East Greek or Island jug. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Orientalizing East Greek or Island jug

Report 8: Ordinary Lydians at Home: The Lydian Trenches of the House of Bronzes and Pactolus Cliff at Sardis (2021) Cat. PC 13
Date
Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age, Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P60.080
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Oinochoe
Pottery Ware
East Greek - Orientalizing
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
PC
Trench
PC
Locus
PC Zone 1, PC Zone 3
B-Grid Coordinates
*89.25
Findspot
Zone 3 to *89.25 and Zone 1 *90.00
Description
Globular body of a jug of orangish-buff fabric with a broad-based foot. Cream slip on exterior of vessel with black painted decoration consisting of thicker and thinner horizontal black bands with a reserved band of continuous interlaced loops at the widest part of the belly. The exterior of the disc foot is decorated with two narrow bands with standing black rays. The interior of the foot has a black band. Compare PC 53.
Dimensions
H. 0.13, Diam. of foot 0.13, Th. 0.007.
Comments
See Also
Bibliography
Hanfmann, “Sardis 1960” p. 22 compares it to Schiering 1957, pp. 8f., pls. 3:2, 4f., dated ca. 650 BC.
Author
NHR

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