Painted a chocolate gray, well polished over paint. Gadroons are flattened vertical lobes, melon-shaped. Traces of paint in five brush lines: on shoulder (or bottom) zigzags between lines; on gadroons (1) dotted vertical cross-hatching, (2) vertically set herringbone of strikes between lines. All gadroons closed with scalloped line of strokes between lines.
Wheel made
Fired light orange buff at core, dull creamy buff on surface.
Dusinberre, Elspeth R. M. ; Vassileva, Maya. "The South Cellar: Elite Feasting at Gordion's Inner Court in the Middle Phrygian Period" in Middle and Late Phrygian Gordion, ed(s). Rose, C. Brian. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Museum, Forthcoming
NB 119: 10. Found June 4, 1965. Sherd from shoulder or lower body of a jug or other closed shape. Body roughly spherical with gadrooned area near center wall.
Citation for this page
Dusinberre, Elspeth; Vessel: Gordion 8024-P-3219, Site: Gordion (Turkey/Central), The Levantine Ceramics Project, accessed on 26 April 2024, https://www.levantineceramics.org/vessels/24875-gordion-8024-p-3219.
