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HoB 230: Terracotta spit holder. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Terracotta spit holder
- Date
- Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC, Early Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- T98.002
- Material
- Terracotta
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Spit Holder
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Plainware
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian IV - Deep Sounding C
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E1 - W5 / S104 - S109 *95.5 - 95.2
- Findspot
- E1-W5 / S104-109 *95.50-95.20
- Description
- A terracotta fragment of a spit holder. Gray fabric core, pink on smooth surfaces. Perhaps rectangular in its original form, but now broken on both sides. Triangular in section (wider at base, tapering toward top), with uneven ridges and depressions along top, as if hastily made with fingers. A narrow incised line 0.044 long appears on one side. A ninth-century spit holder designed to hold a meat-roasting stick over a fire, or while cooling after being removed from a fire. Compare to HoB 106.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.084, L. 0.124, W. 0.010–0.036.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- AR