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    PC 12: Gray Ware baby feeder. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

    Gray Ware baby feeder

    Report 8: Ordinary Lydians at Home: The Lydian Trenches of the House of Bronzes and Pactolus Cliff at Sardis (2021) Cat. PC 12
    Date
    Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age, Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian
    Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
    P60.198
    Material
    Ceramic
    Object Type
    Pottery
    Pottery Shape
    Feeder
    Pottery Ware
    Lydian Grayware
    Pottery Attribution
    Site
    Sardis
    Sector
    PC
    Trench
    PC
    Locus
    PC Zone 3
    B-Grid Coordinates
    *87.8
    Findspot
    Zone 3 *87.80
    Description

    Small Gray Ware baby feeder with silvery slip. Ovoid juglet with everted rim and rounded lip. Band handle attached from rim to the widest part of the belly. Small sucking spout, circular in section and with a very small hole, was separately attached to the vessel at its widest point. Flat base. Exterior is polished. Cf. others from PC as well as HoB 215.

    Dimensions
    H. 0.073, W. of body 0.074, Diam. of rim 0.04, Diam. of base 0.04.
    Comments
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    Author
    NHR

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