• r8-hob-44-10
    HoB 44: Closed vessel with handle. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Closed vessel with handle

Date
Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age, Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P12.107
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Handle
Pottery Ware
Lydian Plainware
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
Locus
HoB LBA/EIA - Deep Sounding C
B-Grid Coordinates
E1.5 - W5 / S102 - S107.5 *92.5 - 92.14
Findspot
E1.5-W5 / S102-107.5 *92.5-92.14 (“whole trench”)
Description
Vertical handle, oval in section and smoothed into the body. Orangish-buff micaceous clay. Parallel incisions, as if fingernail marks, on the top surface of the handle near the body.
Dimensions
L. 0.0445, W. 0.0383, Th. 0.0075.
Comments
See Also
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Author
AR