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HoB 209: Closed vessel (lid?) with projecting lug or boss. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Closed vessel (lid?) with projecting lug or boss
- Date
- Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC, Early Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P12.105
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Body Sherd
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Plainware
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian IV - Deep Sounding C
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W3 - W5 / S97 - S99 *95.2 - 95
- Findspot
- W3-5 / S97-99 *95.2-95.0
- Description
- Flat-ended projecting lug, cylindrical in section and impressed with two diagonal lines forming an X. Made by a round shaped implement such as a small bone that was pressed in the clay. Was apparently cut down for reuse, perhaps as a game piece. Dark reddish-gray micaceous clay. Compare HoB 263 and PC 62 from Pactolus Cliff.
- Dimensions
- H. of lug 0.0185, Th. 0.007.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- AR