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    HoB 71: Pithos with incised mark and hole. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

    Pithos with incised mark and hole

    Report 8: Ordinary Lydians at Home: The Lydian Trenches of the House of Bronzes and Pactolus Cliff at Sardis (2021) Cat. HoB 71
    Date
    Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age, Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian
    Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
    P62.440
    Material
    Ceramic
    Object Type
    Pottery
    Pottery Shape
    Pithos
    Pottery Ware
    Lydian Plainware
    Pottery Attribution
    Site
    Sardis
    Sector
    HoB
    Trench
    HoB
    Locus
    HoB LBA/EIA - Deep Sounding B - Below *94.75 Hearth
    B-Grid Coordinates
    E6 - E5 / S90 - S93 *94.1 - 93.9
    Findspot
    E5-6 / S90-93 *94.10-93.90
    Description
    Shoulder fragment of a pithos. Red clay. Slight depression where the thickness of wall thins toward the neck. Two vertical incised lines and a trace of a third one on neck. A round hole was drilled through the wall.
    Dimensions
    H. 0.85, W. 0.177, Th. 0.025, Diam. of hole 0.022–0.224.
    Comments
    See Also
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    Author
    AR

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