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HoB 169: Mycenaean (?) closed vessel. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Mycenaean (?) closed vessel
- Date
- Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC, Early Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P16.027
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Closed Vessel
- Pottery Ware
- Mycenaean?
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian IV - Deep Sounding C
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E0 - E2 / S105.5 To *94.8
- Findspot
- E0-2 / S105.5 To *94.8
- Description
Handle and base (of an amphora?). Reddish clay with darker red slip. Handle has a wavy line on the exterior and a trace on the upper inner side. Base has a red band above the disk foot. Unslipped on the interior of the base.
Mycenaean or imitation-Mycenaean vessel? Similar to another fragment (P16.23), found at the same elevation but in Deep Sounding B.
- Dimensions
- Base: H. 0.027, est. Diam. 0.125, Th. 0.007; Handle: L. 0.0588, W. 0.035.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- AR