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PC 69: Lydian Geometric dish. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Lydian Geometric dish
- Date
- Context: 9th to 6th c BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P60.209
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Dish
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Painted - Brown on Buff
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- PC
- Trench
- PC
- Locus
- PC Zone 1
- B-Grid Coordinates
- *88 - 87.5
- Findspot
- Zone 1 *88.00–87.50
- Description
- Fragment of a Brown on Buff shallow dish, rising at the edge near the rim. Interior: two dark bands, concentric semicircles each with a central dot, three more bands, and then a central circular dark field. Exterior: pendent triangles with diagonal lines near the rim; three lines, a register of meanders, and three more lines. Interior of vessel is heavily discolored by burning to a dark and light gray.
- Dimensions
- L. 0.07, W. 0.038, Th. 0.008.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- NHR