• r8-pc-26-10
    PC 26: Black on Red stemmed dish. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Black on Red stemmed dish

Date
Context: 9th to 6th c BC, Lydian
Museum
Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 7077
Museum Inventory No.
7077
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P60.256
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Stemmed Dish
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
Findspot
Zone 3, diagonal cut, at X *88.00
Description

Large dish with a wide ledge rim. Stemmed foot is missing. Exterior is red burnished. Interior: ledge rim and bowl has a series of concentric bands with crosshatched squares alternating with reserved areas. The placement of the crosshatched squares carefully ensures that they alternate from one band to another. Similar to PC 27.

[It is not now clear where X was in the diagonal cut.]

Dimensions
H. 0.065, Diam. 0.42, W. of ledge rim 0.045, Th. 0.004–0.008.
Comments
See Also
Bibliography
Hanfmann, “Sardis 1960,” fig. 12.
Author
NHR