• r8-pc-132-10
    PC 132: Cooking stand. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

    Cooking Stand

    Report 8: Ordinary Lydians at Home: The Lydian Trenches of the House of Bronzes and Pactolus Cliff at Sardis (2021) Cat. PC 132
    Date
    Early Iron Age, Lydian
    Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
    P60.398
    Material
    Ceramic
    Object Type
    Pottery
    Pottery Shape
    Cooking Stand
    Pottery Ware
    Lydian Cooking Ware
    Pottery Attribution
    Site
    Sardis
    Sector
    PC
    Trench
    PC
    Locus
    PC Beneath LVC/South
    B-Grid Coordinates
    *87.4
    Findspot
    LVC/South *87.40
    Description

    Fragment includes the rim and inward-facing spur of a hearth stand. The triangular spur, sloping downward, would have supported a cooking pot over the fire. A small lump of clay was added on the rim at the side of the spur. Black gritty fabric with signs of heavy burning. Found near handle with graffito, PC 130.

    Cf. LATW, p. 458, cat no. 62.

    Early Iron Age.

    Dimensions
    H. 0.052, W. 0.065, L. of pointed spur 0.04.
    Comments
    See Also
    Bibliography
    Author
    NHR

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