• r8-hob-44-10
    HoB 44: Closed vessel with handle. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

    Closed vessel with handle

    Report 8: Ordinary Lydians at Home: The Lydian Trenches of the House of Bronzes and Pactolus Cliff at Sardis (2021) Cat. HoB 44
    Date
    Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age, Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian
    Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
    P12.107
    Material
    Ceramic
    Object Type
    Pottery
    Pottery Shape
    Handle
    Pottery Ware
    Lydian Plainware
    Pottery Attribution
    Site
    Sardis
    Sector
    HoB
    Trench
    HoB
    Locus
    HoB LBA/EIA - Deep Sounding C
    B-Grid Coordinates
    E1.5 - W5 / S102 - S107.5 *92.5 - 92.14
    Findspot
    E1.5-W5 / S102-107.5 *92.5-92.14 (“whole trench”)
    Description
    Vertical handle, oval in section and smoothed into the body. Orangish-buff micaceous clay. Parallel incisions, as if fingernail marks, on the top surface of the handle near the body.
    Dimensions
    L. 0.0445, W. 0.0383, Th. 0.0075.
    Comments
    See Also
    Bibliography
    Author
    AR

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