• r8-hob-103-10
    HoB 103: Granite quern. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

    Granite quern

    Report 8: Ordinary Lydians at Home: The Lydian Trenches of the House of Bronzes and Pactolus Cliff at Sardis (2021) Cat. HoB 103
    Date
    Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age, Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian
    Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
    S12.002
    Material
    Stone
    Object Type
    Grindstone
    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 from the middle of a lightly crescent-shaped quern. Smoothed on convex and flat faces while broken edges remain rough. Traces of burning.
    Dimensions
    H. 0.0355, L. 0.17, Diam. 0.0855.
    Comments
    See Also
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    Author
    AR

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