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HoB 19: Scoop bowl handle. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Scoop bowl handle
- Date
- Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age, Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P12.060
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Carinated Bowl, Scoop Bowl
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Painted - Buff
- 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
- E1 - W2 / S106 - S108 *94.5 - 93.9
- Findspot
- E1–W2 / S106–108 *94.5–93.9 ⁓ associated with the area of the donkey; found at a slightly lower level.
- Description
- Mended from six fragments and preserving one complete handle and part of upper body. Buff slip on pinkish body, micaceous. Rim is missing. Deep bowl, possibly a scoop bowl with a vertical loop handle, round in section, beginning at shoulder of vessel. Handle seems to be emerging from surface of bowl, rather than being part of it. Hard-fired with smooth exterior. Bronze Age or Early Iron Age.
- Dimensions
- H. with handle 0.1495, Th. of handle 0.019,Th. of wall 0.0075.
- Comments
- Early levels match Gray profiles from Troy: Blegen, Caskey, and Rawson 1953, pp. 161–62, fig. 365: 2, 4, 4. Also similar to surface finds from Kılcanlar (1981).
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- AR