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HoB 120: Mycenaean or sub-Mycenaean jug handle. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Mycenaean or sub-Mycenaean jug handle
- Date
- 1275–1240 BC, Late Bronze Age
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P60.555
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Jug
- Pottery Ware
- Mycenaean?
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB LBA/EIA - Deep Sounding A
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E10 / S100 *94 - 93.8
- Findspot
- E10 / S100 *94.00-93.80
- Description
Rim and vertical band handle of an imported Mycenaean jug. Buff colored surface. Handle has a red curved line painted between the vertical lines that run along the edge; solid red at top of handle. Penelope Mountjoy, from photos (2016), thought it might be sub-Mycenaean.
Blegen, Caskey, and Rawson 1953, fig. 419:18, from “earthquake stratum,” i.e., 1325–1275 BC and Blegen, Boulter et al. 1958, p. 103, fig. 247:3; Hanfmann, “Sardis 1960,” p. 16, fig. 5.
1275–1240 BC
- Dimensions
- W. of handle 0.028, Th. 0.004.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- AR