Two Sherds

Scott Moore and I have been spending lots of time with sherds over the last two weeks. So it gets pretty exciting to find sherds like this.

This is a stamped piece of Phocaea Red Slip Form 3 (probably form H) with a Lion on it. It probably dates to between 550 and 575.

This is a lamp disk with a cross. So we know that there were Christians near our churches at Polis.

While we enjoyed these sherds a good bit, we also loved two little glazed Medieval sherds which gave us the date for a wall. (Or at least told us that the wall was not ancient.) These sherds are sexier, though.