The Archaeological Exploration of Sardis

HoB 237: Iron sickle blade. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Iron sickle blade

Report 8: Ordinary Lydians at Home: The Lydian Trenches of the House of Bronzes and Pactolus Cliff at Sardis (2021) Cat. HoB 237

Date: Early Iron Age, Early Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.: M11.004
Material: Iron
Object Type: Metalwork
Metalwork Type: Tool
Site: Sardis
Sector: HoB
Trench: HoB
Locus: HoB Lydian IV - Deep Sounding C
B-Grid Coordinates: W4 - W6 / S89 - S92 *95.3 - 94.8
Findspot: W4-6 / S89-92 *95.3-94.8

Description

Sickle blade, encrusted. Concave blade curves to a pointed tip.

Early Iron Age.

Dimensions

L. 0.2, W. 0.026.

Comments

See Also

Bibliography

Hanfmann and Mierse, SPRT, fig. 30; Sardis M8, cat. no. 118; Hanfmann, "Sardis 1966," p. 36.

Author

AR

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