• r8-hob-46-10
    HoB 46: Body sherd. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

    Body sherd

    Report 8: Ordinary Lydians at Home: The Lydian Trenches of the House of Bronzes and Pactolus Cliff at Sardis (2021) Cat. HoB 46
    Date
    Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age, Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian
    Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
    P12.098
    Material
    Ceramic
    Object Type
    Pottery
    Pottery Shape
    Body Sherd
    Pottery Ware
    Lydian Plainware
    Pottery Attribution
    Site
    Sardis
    Sector
    HoB
    Trench
    HoB
    Locus
    HoB LBA/EIA - Deep Sounding C
    B-Grid Coordinates
    E1.5 - E3 / S103 - S106 *90.8 - 89.9
    Findspot
    E1.5-3 / S103-106 *90.8-89.9 (“test pit”)
    Description
    Possibly an open vessel, body fragment. Reddish-orange micaceous clay; exterior and interior smoothed; stick polished.
    Dimensions
    L. 0.0425, W. 0.0255, Th. 0.0073.
    Comments
    See Also
    Bibliography
    Author
    AR

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