• r8-hob-105-10
    HoB 105: Pithos with two small lug handles. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

    Pithos with two small lug handles

    Report 8: Ordinary Lydians at Home: The Lydian Trenches of the House of Bronzes and Pactolus Cliff at Sardis (2021) Cat. HoB 105
    Date
    Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age, Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian
    Museum
    Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 4339
    Museum Inventory No.
    4339
    Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
    P62.463
    Material
    Ceramic
    Object Type
    Pottery
    Pottery Shape
    Pithos
    Pottery Ware
    Lydian Plainware
    Pottery Attribution
    Site
    Sardis
    Sector
    HoB
    Trench
    HoB
    Locus
    HoB LBA/EIA - Round Hut and Cremation Burial
    B-Grid Coordinates
    E6 / S88 *91.7 - 91.3
    Findspot
    E6 / S88 *91.70-91.30
    Description
    Complete pithos. Red fabric, coarse and gritty. Rounded everted rim with two small lug handles below rim. Body tapers to rounded base.
    Dimensions
    H. 0.52, Diam. of outer rim 0.43, Diam. of body 0.44, H. and W. of lug 0.03.
    Comments
    See Also
    Bibliography
    Hanfmann, “Sardis 1962,” p. 7; Hanfmann and Mierse, SPRT, pp. 20–21, figs. 24, 25.
    Author
    AR

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