• r8-hob-65-10
    HoB 65: Closed vessel with concentric semicircles. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

    Closed vessel with concentric semicircles

    Report 8: Ordinary Lydians at Home: The Lydian Trenches of the House of Bronzes and Pactolus Cliff at Sardis (2021) Cat. HoB 65
    Date
    Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age, Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian
    Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
    P62.459
    Material
    Ceramic
    Object Type
    Pottery
    Pottery Shape
    Body Sherd
    Pottery Ware
    Lydian Painted - Patterned
    Pottery Attribution
    Site
    Sardis
    Sector
    HoB
    Trench
    HoB
    Locus
    HoB LBA/EIA - Deep Sounding B - Below *94.75 Hearth
    B-Grid Coordinates
    E0 - E3 / S95 - S97 * *94.25 - 94
    Findspot
    E0-3 / S95-97 *94.25-94.0
    Description
    Body fragment of a closed vessel; vessel thickens considerably where the handle would have been attached. Buff, micaceous fabric. Brown painted decoration on exterior includes two horizontal bands on which are standing concentric semicircles; also a diagonal band that cuts across the two horizontal bands.
    Dimensions
    H. 0.06, W. 0.085, Th. 0.006, Th. of handle 0.013.
    Comments
    See Also
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    Author
    AR

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