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HoB 216: Pithos. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Pithos
- Date
- Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC, Early Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P66.138
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Pithos
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Plainware
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian IV - Deep Sounding C
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E1 - W1 / S107 - S109 *95.2 - 94.9
- Findspot
- E1-W1 / S107-109 *95.2-94.9
- Description
- Many fragments of a complete plain red gritty pithos. Flat thickened rim. Disk foot. Smoothed surface inside and outside. The mending holes indicate that it could not have held liquid in its final state. Found with its own neck inside the body, along with a great deal of other pottery.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.76, Diam. of rim 0.44, Diam. of foot 0.20, Diam. of body 0.95.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- AR