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    PC 23: Black on Red jar. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Black on Red jar

Date
9th c BC?, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P13.071
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Closed Vessel
Pottery Ware
Lydian Painted - Black on Red - Patterned
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
PC
Trench
PC
Locus
PC Zone 3 Diagonal Cut
B-Grid Coordinates
*88 - 87.5
Findspot
*88.00–87.50
Description

Fragment with a horizontal line at the join of neck to shoulder. The upper parts of two diagonally hatched upside-down V shapes. Unglazed on interior.

A Geometric piece from Lydian IV, perhaps as early as ninth century, based on comparisons to HoB.

Dimensions
H. 0.037, W. 0.078, Th. 0.004.
Comments
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Author
NHR