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    PC 63: Black on Red dish or bowl. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Black on Red dish or bowl

Date
Context: 9th to 6th c BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P13.031
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Dish
Pottery Ware
Lydian Painted - Black on Red - Patterned
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
PC
Trench
PC
Locus
PC Zone 2A
B-Grid Coordinates
*88
Findspot
Zone 2A *88.00
Description

Rim fragment of a Black on Red shallow dish or bowl. Exterior, with pendent semicircles, heavily worn. Interior: below the rim, a black line frames a wavy line pattern made with a five-headed multiple brush that was held at an angle, so that the lines appear to make a knitting pattern. Two black lines and then pendent semicircles.

Dimensions
H. 0.034, est. Diam. 0.25, Th. 0.005.
Comments
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Author
NHR