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PC 54: Pithos with incised decoration. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Pithos with incised decoration
- Date
- Context: 9th to 6th c BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P60.065
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Pithos
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Plainware
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- PC
- Trench
- PC
- Locus
- PC Zone 2
- B-Grid Coordinates
- *90.2
- Findspot
- Zone 2 *90.20
- Description
- Large shoulder fragment of a thick-walled pithos. Red fabric with micaceous gold wash. Near top of fragment, slightly raised ridge with incised line directly beneath. Below this is another incised line, below which are six slightly curving lines that overlap one another to form a star. Blunt-tipped tool used to incise decoration before firing.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.215, W. 0.10, Th. 0.016.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- NHR