• r8-hob-77-10
    HoB 77: Carinated storage jar. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

    Carinated storage jar

    Report 8: Ordinary Lydians at Home: The Lydian Trenches of the House of Bronzes and Pactolus Cliff at Sardis (2021) Cat. HoB 77
    Date
    Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age, Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian
    Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
    P62.468
    Material
    Ceramic
    Object Type
    Pottery
    Pottery Shape
    Jar
    Pottery Ware
    Non-Local?
    Pottery Attribution
    Site
    Sardis
    Sector
    HoB
    Trench
    HoB
    Locus
    HoB LBA/EIA - Deep Sounding B - Below *94.75 Hearth
    B-Grid Coordinates
    E10 / S95 - S100 *93.9 - 93
    Findspot
    E10 / S95-100 *93.90-93.00
    Description

    Fragment of the belly of a carinated storage jar. Dense purplish body with white slip on exterior; many small light-colored inclusions. Hard fired. Added coil at carination.

    Perhaps an import.

    Dimensions
    H. 0.08, W. 0.073, Th. 0.01, Th. of flange 0.026.
    Comments
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    Author
    AR

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