• r8-hob-17-10
    HoB 17: Gray Ware handled bowl. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

    Gray Ware handled bowl

    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.
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    Author
    AR