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PC 8: Omphalos of a phiale. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Omphalos of a phiale
- Date
- Context: 9th to 6th c BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P60.109
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Omphalos Phiale
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Painted - Black on Red - Patterned
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- PC
- Trench
- PC
- Locus
- PC Zone 4
- B-Grid Coordinates
- *88.5
- Findspot
- Zone 4 *88.50
- Description
A Black on Red omphalos, cut down from a large phiale, presumably to be used as a stopper or game piece. A black ring encircles the omphalos, and four diagonally crosshatched triangles meet in the center. Upper side burnished, and underside red-slipped. Cf. PC 72 and see discussion in Chapter 1 on p. 7. Notice how the design is similar to that in the center of HoB 325.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.015, Diam. 0.055.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- NHR