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    HoB 56: Painted lid of large pithos (?). (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

    Painted lid of large pithos (?)

    Report 8: Ordinary Lydians at Home: The Lydian Trenches of the House of Bronzes and Pactolus Cliff at Sardis (2021) Cat. HoB 56
    Date
    Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age, Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian
    Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
    P62.404
    Material
    Ceramic
    Object Type
    Pottery
    Pottery Shape
    Lid
    Pottery Ware
    Lydian Painted - Patterned
    Pottery Attribution
    Site
    Sardis
    Sector
    HoB
    Trench
    HoB
    Locus
    HoB LBA/EIA - Deep Sounding B - *94.75 Hearth and Below
    B-Grid Coordinates
    E5 / S90 *94.8 - 94.5
    Findspot
    E5 / S90 *94.80-94.50
    Description
    Domical lid, perhaps of a pithos. Coarse and dense; red fabric, gray core. Exterior has a recessed groove that follows the circumference of the lid, and a second groove, thus making a shallow ridge between them. Orangey red is painted on the raised ridge. Two registers of painted red concentric circles are separated by a thick red band. Traces of a third red band. The concentric circles carry over into the red bands and the groove around the lid. Exterior and interior are slipped a lighter orange slip.
    Dimensions
    H. 0.068, est. Diam. 0.42–0.45, Th. 0.014.
    Comments
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    Author
    AR

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