• r8-hob-16-10
    HoB 16: Gray Ware bowl. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

    Gray Ware bowl

    Report 8: Ordinary Lydians at Home: The Lydian Trenches of the House of Bronzes and Pactolus Cliff at Sardis (2021) Cat. HoB 16
    Date
    Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age, Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian
    Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
    P66.154
    Material
    Ceramic
    Object Type
    Pottery
    Pottery Shape
    Bowl
    Pottery Ware
    Lydian Grayware
    Pottery Attribution
    Site
    Sardis
    Sector
    HoB
    Trench
    HoB
    Locus
    HoB LBA/EIA - Deep Sounding C - Finds Associated with the Donkey at *94.2
    B-Grid Coordinates
    E1 - W2 / S106 - S108 *94.5 - 93.9
    Findspot
    E1–W2 / S106–108 *94.5–93.9 ⁓ associated with the area of the donkey; found at a slightly lower level
    Description
    Eight joining pieces amounting to about half a Gray Ware bowl with full profile except for handle. Light burnishing. Narrow ledge rim. Low ring foot. Scar of handle preserved on rim and body. Smooth gray finish, heavy walls.
    Dimensions
    H. 0.05, Diam. of rim 0.135, Diam. of foot 0.06, Th. 0.005.
    Comments
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    Author
    AR

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