• r8-hob-106-10
    HoB 106: Rod or spit holder. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

    Rod or spit holder

    Report 8: Ordinary Lydians at Home: The Lydian Trenches of the House of Bronzes and Pactolus Cliff at Sardis (2021) Cat. HoB 106
    Date
    Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age, Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian
    Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
    T02.008
    Material
    Terracotta
    Object Type
    Pottery
    Pottery Shape
    Spit Holder
    Pottery Ware
    Lydian Plainware
    Pottery Attribution
    Site
    Sardis
    Sector
    HoB
    Trench
    HoB
    Locus
    HoB LBA/EIA - Round Hut and Cremation Burial
    B-Grid Coordinates
    E5 - E10 / S90 - S95 to *91.4
    Findspot
    E5-10 / S90-95 *91.40
    Description
    Fragment of an oval terracotta object used as a rod or spit holder. Two projections at the top may have been part of a row used to steady rods or a spit. Compare HoB 230, from Deep Sounding C.
    Dimensions
    W. 0.052, L. 0.104, Th. 0.057.
    Comments
    See Also
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    Author
    AR

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