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    HoB 17: Gray Ware handled bowl. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Gray Ware handled bowl

Report 8: Ordinary Lydians at Home: The Lydian Trenches of the House of Bronzes and Pactolus Cliff at Sardis (2021) Cat. HoB 17
Date
Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age, Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P12.034
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Bowl
Pottery Ware
Lydian Grayware
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
Locus
HoB LBA/EIA - Deep Sounding C - Finds Associated with the Donkey at *94.2
B-Grid Coordinates
E4 - W5 / S106 - S103 *94.3 - 94
Findspot
E4–W5 / S103–106 *94.3–94.0
Description
Globular Gray Ware bowl with small ledge rim. Gray micaceous clay. Horizontal lug notched on both sides, beneath which is a spool handle added with a pinch of two fingers, and a vertical loop handle below. Bowl is slightly carinated with a large rounded, raised ridge just below the upper attachment of the handle. Exterior, a silvery wash. Interior plain. Cf. HoB 15.
Dimensions
H. 0.109, est. Diam. 0.20, Th. 0.0085.
Comments
See Also
Bibliography
Author
AR

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