• r8-hob-417-10
    HoB 417: Cooking pot. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Cooking pot

Date
Context: early to third quarter of 7th c BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P68.170
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 II - Building H
B-Grid Coordinates
W31 / S128 floor *99
Findspot
W31 / S128 *99.0 floor ⁓ southeast corner of Building H
Description
Many joining fragments of cooking pot. Rounded and slightly outward curving rim; wide neck; large ovoid body; flat base with six perforations put in after firing; two horizontal loop handles rising diagonally (only the stumps preserved). Surface worn.
Dimensions
H. 0.40, Diam. of rim 0.25, Diam. of base 0.12, Th. 0.006–0.007.
Comments
See Also
Bibliography
Author
GGD