• r8-hob-34-10
    HoB 34: Hammer-shaped loom weight. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

    Hammer-shaped loom weight

    Report 8: Ordinary Lydians at Home: The Lydian Trenches of the House of Bronzes and Pactolus Cliff at Sardis (2021) Cat. HoB 34
    Date
    Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age, Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian
    Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
    T12.005.12
    Material
    Terracotta
    Object Type
    Weaving Equipment
    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 - S108.5 *94.8 - 94.5
    Findspot
    E1–W2 / S106–108.5 *94.8–94.5
    Description
    Loom weight lightly fired. Fabric is slightly micaceous. Temper: chaff. A hole pierced through, top to bottom. Bottom is slightly concave (missing a piece/eroded?). Uniform texture, more like mudbrick than pottery. Surface is powdery. Loom weight is similar to HoB 220–HoB 229.
    Dimensions
    L. 0.065, Diam. 0.051 m; Wt. 140.75 g.
    Comments
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    Author
    AR

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