• r8-hob-230-10
    HoB 230: Terracotta spit holder. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

    Terracotta spit holder

    Report 8: Ordinary Lydians at Home: The Lydian Trenches of the House of Bronzes and Pactolus Cliff at Sardis (2021) Cat. HoB 230
    Date
    Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC, Early Lydian
    Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
    T98.002
    Material
    Terracotta
    Object Type
    Pottery
    Pottery Shape
    Spit Holder
    Pottery Ware
    Lydian Plainware
    Pottery Attribution
    Site
    Sardis
    Sector
    HoB
    Trench
    HoB
    Locus
    HoB Lydian IV - Deep Sounding C
    B-Grid Coordinates
    E1 - W5 / S104 - S109 *95.5 - 95.2
    Findspot
    E1-W5 / S104-109 *95.50-95.20
    Description
    A terracotta fragment of a spit holder. Gray fabric core, pink on smooth surfaces. Perhaps rectangular in its original form, but now broken on both sides. Triangular in section (wider at base, tapering toward top), with uneven ridges and depressions along top, as if hastily made with fingers. A narrow incised line 0.044 long appears on one side. A ninth-century spit holder designed to hold a meat-roasting stick over a fire, or while cooling after being removed from a fire. Compare to HoB 106.
    Dimensions
    H. 0.084, L. 0.124, W. 0.010–0.036.
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    Author
    AR

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