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    HoB 302: Gray Ware round-mouthed jug. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Gray Ware round-mouthed jug

Report 8: Ordinary Lydians at Home: The Lydian Trenches of the House of Bronzes and Pactolus Cliff at Sardis (2021) Cat. HoB 302
Date
Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC, Early Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P12.012
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Round-Mouthed Jug
Pottery Ware
Lydian Grayware
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
Locus
HoB Lydian IV - Gray Ware and Other Monochrome from ca. *97.0 to *94.75
B-Grid Coordinates
W2 - W5 / S102 - S105 *96.7 - 96.2
Findspot
W2-5 / S102-105 *96.7-96.2 ⁓ Deep Sounding C
Description
About half of a Gray Ware round-mouthed jug. Gray fabric with a silvery wash on the exterior; high fired. Thin, nearly pointed rim. A slight indentation at join of neck to body. Oval, high-swung handle. Carinated just below the lower attachment of the handle. Smoothed on exterior.
Dimensions
H. with handle 0.0995, Diam. of neck 0.09, Th. 0.0045.
Comments
See Also
Bibliography
Author
AR

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