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    PC 60: Small jug with gold wash. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Small jug with gold wash

Date
Probably 9th c BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P60.173
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Juglet
Pottery Ware
Lydian Painted
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
PC
Trench
PC
Locus
PC Zone 2
B-Grid Coordinates
*87.7
Findspot
Zone 2 test pit *87.70
Description

Trefoil mouth and neck of a small jug. Buff fabric with micaceous gold wash. Neck decorated with four narrow brown bands, with streaky glaze between the top two bands. A narrow horizontal wave pattern between the second and third bands. Then a wide red painted band bordered by dark lines, top and bottom, where the body flares out. Traces of purple dots on the rim. Pronounced raised ridge where neck and shoulder of the vessel meet.

Lydian IV, probably ninth century BC

Dimensions
H. 0.075, Diam. of neck 0.11 at widest point, Th. 0.003.
Comments
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Author
NHR