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    PC 39: Painted krater. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Painted krater

Date
7th c BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P60.130
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Krater
Pottery Ware
Lydian Painted - Orientalizing
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
PC
Trench
PC
Locus
PC Zone 2
B-Grid Coordinates
*88.6 - 88.35
Findspot
Zone 2 *88.60–88.35
Description

Eight fragments of a large Orientalizing krater, reddish-brown on buff. Outlines of fish swimming to right on left side of attached handle. Alternating dark red and buff bands on rim. Alternating colors also on handle, which has a thumb rest on top, and had a boss (now missing) at bottom. The same alternating colors on a raised band below the fish. Lower part of krater was slipped, as was the interior. Lydian manufacture. A second krater fragment, P60.187, with similar but not exactly the same profile, and with completely different surface treatment, was found at *88.20–88.00.

Early seventh century at the earliest.

Dimensions
H. 0.24, W. 0.18, Th. 0.01.
Comments
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Author
NHR