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PC 74: Black on Red shallow dish. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Black on Red shallow dish
- Date
- Context: 9th to 6th c BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P60.191
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Stemmed Dish
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Painted - Black on Red - Patterned
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- PC
- Trench
- PC
- Locus
- PC Zone 1
- B-Grid Coordinates
- *88.2
- Findspot
- Zone 1 *88.20
- Description
- Shallow dish with a stem, now missing. The stem must have broken, and it was then smoothed off for continued use as a stemless dish. Wide ledge rim and rounded lip. Black band running around outer and inner boundaries of the rim. A series of pendent concentric semicircles on the ledge rim. Just below the rim, a series of further pendent concentric semicircles. In one place, the semicircles overlap, as the artist ran out of room. Rest of the interior of the dish filled with small concentric circles (two circles each) with a dot at the center. Exterior is not decorated, but there is a shallow groove near the bottom. Both interior and exterior are polished.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.045, Diam. 0.23–0.235, Th. 0.01.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Hanfmann, “Sardis 1960,” p. 25, fig. 12.
- Author
- NHR