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    HoB 18: Deep Gray Ware bowl. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

    Deep 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 18
    Date
    Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age, Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian
    Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
    P66.157
    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
    Deep bowl with everted rim and ring foot. Light, silvery, self-slipped, and polished surface with a body reduced to a uniform gray throughout. Below the rim are two grooves, which result in a raised band between them.
    Dimensions
    H. 0.105, est. Diam. of rim 0.23–0.24, Diam. of foot 0.08, Th. 0.003–0.006.
    Comments
    See Also
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    Author
    AR

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