The Archaeological Exploration of Sardis

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Iron Age cooking pot
R8 Cat. HoB 295

Pottery

Ceramic

Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC (Early Lydian)

An almost complete cooking pot with evidence of burning on the exterior. Vertical handle. Wavy lines incised on the exterior.
Cooking pot.
Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul
Cooking stand.
Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul
Cooking pot.
Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul
Wide-necked cooking pot
R8 Cat. HoB 31

Pottery

Ceramic

Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age (Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian)

Handmade pot. Coarse reddish fabric with evidence of burning on the exterior. Handle scar at shoulder and at rim. Possibly for industrial use; white incrustation inside.
Band handle of cooking pot
R8 Cat. HoB 32

Pottery

Ceramic

Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age (Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian)

Band handle and partial body of a globular cooking pot. Reddish-buff micaceous coarse clay with gray core. A fine double ridge runs along the neck of the jar. Signs of burning on exterior.
Cooking pot with high handle
R8 Cat. HoB 372

Pottery

Ceramic

Context: last quarter of 8th c BC (Lydian)

Four joining fragments of high-handled cooking pot. Gray coarse micaceous clay with quartz inclusions. Band handle has two slightly raised ridges. Outwardly flaring rim with vertical profile. Globular body, much blackened by smoke.
Cooking ware amphora neck
R8 Cat. HoB 711

Pottery

Ceramic

Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC (Lydian)

Four fragments of rim, neck, shoulder, and handle of amphora in cooking ware. It is rare to have a pot of this shape in this fabric. Everted and thickened rim; nearly vertical neck; articulated sharp transition at the join between neck and shoulder; ...
Cooking pot with impressed boss
R8 Cat. PC 62

Pottery

Ceramic

Context: 9th to 6th c BC (Lydian)

Fragment of a large round cooking pot with a boss. The boss was impressed in two directions, making an X across the top surface. Made by a round-shaped implement such as a small bone that was pressed in the clay. The broken fragment was apparently cu...
Jar
R8 Cat. HoB 770

Pottery

Ceramic

Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC (Lydian)

Complete jar. Shape similar to cooking pot. Everted rim; ovoid body; plain base; vertical handle from rim to mid-body.
Heavily burned large cooking pot
R8 Cat. HoB 128

Pottery

Ceramic

Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age (Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian)

Rim, body, and base of a rounded cooking pot in three nonjoining sections. Rim accentuated with incised line. Two flat plate handles, almost certainly placed opposite each other. Heavily burned on exterior.
Cooking pot lid.
Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul
Lid of cooking pot with semicircular spoon cutout
R8 Cat. HoB 320

Pottery

Ceramic

Context: last quarter of 8th c BC (Lydian)

Two joining fragments of a cooking pot lid with a curved spoon cutout. Red clay body. Two scars of a vertical loop handle. Complete except for the handle. Sides of lid slanted. Heavily burned on interior and exterior.
East Greek bird skyphos
R8 Cat. HoB 348

Pottery

Ceramic

Ca. 725–675 BC (Lydian)

Bird skyphos with nicked rim and a black band. Fine buff clay. Exterior below band at rim is a metopal frieze with a geometric tree and crosshatched bird separated by vertical lines. Interior painted dark. Both exterior and interior polished.