• r8-hob-102-10
    HoB 102: Whetstone. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

    Whetstone

    Report 8: Ordinary Lydians at Home: The Lydian Trenches of the House of Bronzes and Pactolus Cliff at Sardis (2021) Cat. HoB 102
    Date
    Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age, Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian
    Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
    S12.001
    Material
    Stone
    Object Type
    Stone Implement
    Site
    Sardis
    Sector
    HoB
    Trench
    HoB
    Locus
    HoB LBA/EIA - Low Levels of Deep Sounding B
    B-Grid Coordinates
    E5 - E6 / S90 - S93 *94.1 - 93.9
    Findspot
    E5-6 / S90-93 *94.10-93.90
    Description
    Fragment of a whetstone of hard gray stone, broken at one end. It probably had a hole at the other end, based on others.
    Dimensions
    H. 0.008, L. 0.0415, Diam. 0.016.
    Comments
    See Also
    Bibliography
    Author
    AR

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