-
HoB 34: Hammer-shaped loom weight. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Hammer-shaped loom weight
- Date
- Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age, Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- T12.005.12
- Material
- Terracotta
- Object Type
- Weaving Equipment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB LBA/EIA - Deep Sounding C - Finds Associated with the Donkey at *94.2
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E1 - W2 / S106 - S108.5 *94.8 - 94.5
- Findspot
- E1–W2 / S106–108.5 *94.8–94.5
- Description
- Loom weight lightly fired. Fabric is slightly micaceous. Temper: chaff. A hole pierced through, top to bottom. Bottom is slightly concave (missing a piece/eroded?). Uniform texture, more like mudbrick than pottery. Surface is powdery. Loom weight is similar to HoB 220–HoB 229.
- Dimensions
- L. 0.065, Diam. 0.051 m; Wt. 140.75 g.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- AR