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HoB 339: Gray Ware lid. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Gray Ware lid
- Date
- Context: last quarter of 8th c BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P65.221
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Lid
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Grayware
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian III - Central Area
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W2 - W5 / S97 - S101 *97.4
- Findspot
- W2-5 / S97-101 *97.4
- Description
- Large, domical Gray Ware lid with inward-turned rim. Coarse, dark clay. Stump of handle remains; presumably a matching one on the other side. Reconstituted from pieces found at several spots in the Central Area. Imprint of yarn around the edge; apparently decorative in purpose. The inside retains strong indications of throwing marks while the outside shows much more hand working. Fragments of the lid indicate heavy burning. As there was no sign of a bowl to go with it, this may have been specifically for smoking food over a fire.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.05, Diam. of rim 0.54, Th. 0.008.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- AR