• r8-hob-90-10
    HoB 90: Buff Ware jug with incised decoration. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

    Buff Ware jug with incised decoration

    Report 8: Ordinary Lydians at Home: The Lydian Trenches of the House of Bronzes and Pactolus Cliff at Sardis (2021) Cat. HoB 90
    Date
    Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age, Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian
    Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
    P62.405
    Material
    Ceramic
    Object Type
    Pottery
    Pottery Shape
    Jug
    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
    E10 / S90 to *93.2
    Findspot
    E10 / S90 To *93.20
    Description
    Shoulder and stub vertical band handle of large Buff Ware jug. Shallow groove at neck. Variegated hatching incised in opposite directions in registers to create zigzags on handle. Also a row of incisions on each side of the handle. Interior buff. Exterior is smoothed.
    Dimensions
    H. 0.095, W. 0.155, W. of handle 0.045, Th. of handle 0.013.
    Comments
    See Also
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    Author
    AR

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