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HoB 294: Gray Ware lid with impressed triangles. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Gray Ware lid with impressed triangles
- Date
- Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC, Early Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P14.015
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Lid
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Grayware
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian IV - to *96.10
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W4 - W6 / S87 - S89 *96.4 - 96.2
- Findspot
- E1-W4 / S100-15 *96.7-96; W0–3 / S98–100 *97.3–96.3; E1–W6 / S105–107 To *96.0; W4–6 / S87–89 *96.4–96.2
- Description
- Four body fragments (two joining) of a lightly arched lid, found over a large area. Reddish-gray micaceous fabric. Raised band with impressed triangles alternating between upside-down and right-side-up triangles, evidently made with a rolling stamp. A second row of the same pattern of impressed triangles from farther out on the lid. Exterior polished. Cf. HoB 296.
- Dimensions
- Largest fragment: W. 0.059, L. 0.0455, Th. 0.0085.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- AR