• r8-pc-73-10
    PC 73: Shoulder of an East Greek Geometric closed vessel. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Shoulder of an East Greek Geometric closed vessel

Date
Context: 9th to 6th c BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P60.210
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Closed Vessel
Pottery Ware
East Greek Geometric
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
Brown on Buff shoulder fragment from a closed vessel. Two narrow lines at the point closest to the neck are followed by a register of false meanders and then two more lines. Vessel was sharply carinated at the turn to the body, which is marked at this juncture by a horizontal chevron pattern. Polished on exterior. From the lowest levels of Zone 1, below the pebble floor.
Dimensions
H. 0.045, W. 0.035, Th. 0.005.
Comments
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Author
NHR