• r8-hob-88-10
    HoB 88: Clay basin of breadtray fabric. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

    Clay basin of breadtray fabric

    Report 8: Ordinary Lydians at Home: The Lydian Trenches of the House of Bronzes and Pactolus Cliff at Sardis (2021) Cat. HoB 88
    Date
    Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age, Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian
    Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
    P12.053
    Material
    Ceramic
    Object Type
    Pottery
    Pottery Shape
    Basin
    Pottery Ware
    Breadtray
    Pottery Attribution
    Site
    Sardis
    Sector
    HoB
    Trench
    HoB
    Locus
    HoB LBA/EIA - Deep Sounding B - Below *94.75 Hearth
    B-Grid Coordinates
    E10 / S90 to *93.2
    Findspot
    E10 / S90 To *93.20
    Description
    A fragment, part of the base and wall, of a straight-edged clay basin with a thick vertical wall and thick, flat base. Medium-hard breadtray fabric with large pebble inclusions. Interior somewhat smoothed but exterior is very uneven. Cf. HoB 217.
    Dimensions
    H. 0.0775, W. 0.060, L. 0.138.
    Comments
    See Also
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    Author
    AR

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