• r8-hob-95-10
    HoB 95: Closed painted vessel, Late Mycenaean? (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

    Closed painted vessel, Late Mycenaean?

    Date
    Late Helladic IIIC, Late Bronze Age
    Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
    P62.448
    Material
    Ceramic
    Object Type
    Pottery
    Pottery Shape
    Closed Vessel
    Pottery Ware
    Mycenaean?
    Pottery Attribution
    Site
    Sardis
    Sector
    HoB
    Trench
    HoB
    Locus
    HoB LBA/EIA - Low Levels of Deep Sounding B
    B-Grid Coordinates
    E10 / S90 - S95 to *92.8
    Findspot
    E10 / S90-95 To *92.80; E5–8.5 / S90–92 *93.90–93.73.
    Description

    Two joining body fragments from a closed vessel of piriform shape. Reddish clay polished on the exterior. Most of the profile preserved. The three horizontal bands with crosshatched triangles above are all painted reddish-brown.

    Penelope Mountjoy (2016) suggested it is probably LH IIIC.

    Dimensions
    H. 0.10, W. 0.10, Th. 0.005.
    Comments
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    Author
    AR