• r8-hob-30-10
    HoB 30: Cooking pot. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

    Cooking pot

    Report 8: Ordinary Lydians at Home: The Lydian Trenches of the House of Bronzes and Pactolus Cliff at Sardis (2021) Cat. HoB 30
    Date
    Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age, Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian
    Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
    P66.140
    Material
    Ceramic
    Object Type
    Pottery
    Pottery Shape
    Cooking Jug (Flat Bottom)
    Pottery Ware
    Lydian Cooking Ware
    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 - E3 / S100 - S103 *94.6 - 94.2
    Findspot
    Found near HoB 31.
    Description
    Many joining pieces of cooking pot with complete profile. Thinner walls and finer fabric than is usual for a cooking pot. Band handle from rim to belly, with finger depression at join with belly. Row of short diagonal slashes around lower neck. Light groove on inside of rim. Wide, flat bottom.
    Dimensions
    H. 0.14, Diam. of rim 0.12, Diam. of base 0.09, W. of handle 0.032.
    Comments
    See Also
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    Author
    AR

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