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    HoB 401: Globular cooking pot. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Globular cooking pot

Date
Context: last quarter of 8th c BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P12.036
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Cooking Pot
Pottery Ware
Lydian Cooking Ware
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
Locus
HoB Lydian III - Deep Sounding C and Vicinity
B-Grid Coordinates
W3 - W7 / S100 - S102 *96.4 - 95.8
Findspot
W3-7 / S100-102 *96.4-95.8
Description
Fragment of globular cooking pot with everted rim and slightly squared lip. Coarse, gray micaceous fabric with inclusions. At the shoulder is a wavy horizontal incised line bordered by two incised horizontal lines. The incised lines are not consistently level and at certain points the wavy line overlaps the border. Exterior was burned.
Dimensions
H. 0.0743, H. of decorative band 0.017, est. Diam. of rim 0.13, Th. 0.007.
Comments
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Author
AR