• r8-hob-460-10
    HoB 460: 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
Museum
Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 7510
Museum Inventory No.
7510
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P68.169
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 L
B-Grid Coordinates
W37 / S93 floor *97.6
Findspot
W37 / S93 *97.6 floor
Description
Pot is almost intact. Everted rim; globular body; flat base; two cylindrical loop handles on upper part of shoulder, rising up vertically. A total of six horizontal incised lines on the body: three on the shoulder, two on the level of handle stump, and one below handle. (The photo makes the pot bottom look narrower than the drawing because of the angle.)
Dimensions
H. 0.255, Diam. of rim 0.21, Diam. of body 0.34, Diam. of base 0.095.
Comments
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Author
GGD