• r8-hob-101-10
    HoB 101: Iron knife blade. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

    Iron knife blade

    Report 8: Ordinary Lydians at Home: The Lydian Trenches of the House of Bronzes and Pactolus Cliff at Sardis (2021) Cat. HoB 101
    Date
    Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age, Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian
    Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
    M12.003
    Material
    Iron
    Object Type
    Metalwork
    Metalwork Type
    Tool, Weapon or Armor
    Site
    Sardis
    Sector
    HoB
    Trench
    HoB
    Locus
    HoB LBA/EIA - Low Levels of Deep Sounding B
    B-Grid Coordinates
    E5 - E8.5 / S90 - S92 *93.9 - 93.73
    Findspot
    E5-8.5 / S90-92 *93.90-93.73
    Description
    Small, oblong iron knife blade. Bottom of blade curves up to meet top of blade, which is straight and level. Rectangular tang.
    Dimensions
    W. 0.0128, L. 0.0572, W. of tang 0.0065.
    Comments
    See Also
    Bibliography
    Hanfmann, “Sardis 1962,” p. 7.
    Author
    AR

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