• r8-pc-136-10
    PC 136: 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 136
    Date
    Context: 9th to 6th c BC, Lydian
    Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
    P13.034
    Material
    Ceramic
    Object Type
    Pottery
    Pottery Shape
    Feeder
    Pottery Ware
    Lydian Grayware
    Pottery Attribution
    Site
    Sardis
    Sector
    PC
    Trench
    PC
    Locus
    PC Beneath LVC/South
    B-Grid Coordinates
    *87.5 - 87
    Findspot
    Test pit beneath LVC/South *87.50–87.00
    Description
    Approximately half of a globular Gray Ware baby feeder, preserving whole profile except the spout and handle. Surface burnished. Cf. PC 12 and baby feeders from HoB: HoB 215 (from a ninth- or eighth-century level in Deep Sounding C) and HoB 344.
    Dimensions
    H. 0.066, Diam. 0.073, Th. of base 0.009, Th. of wall 0.008, Th. of neck 0.0035.
    Comments
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    Author
    NHR

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