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HoB 195: Gray Ware krater. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Gray Ware krater
- Date
- Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC, Early Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P12.015
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Krater
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Grayware
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian IV - Deep Sounding C
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W3 - W6 / S97 - S100 *95.5 - 95
- Findspot
- W3-6 / S97-100 *95.5-95.0; E1–4 / S98–100 *95.6–95.1
- Description
- Rim, handle, and part of body of a large Gray Ware krater. Two strap handles (one joining); each has a central ridge, and a semicircular thumb rest at the top. Neck is vertical. Rim has a recessed ledge to accommodate a lid. Rim flares outward. Exterior smoothed.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.143, est. Diam. 0.34, Th. 0.0065.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- AR