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Pithos in situ in Building O (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College) -
HoB 463: Pithos. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Pithos
- Date
- Context: early to third quarter of 7th c BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P70.034
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Pithos
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Plainware
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian II - Building O
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W31 / S93 *97.5
- Findspot
- W31 / S93 *97.5 at rim
- Description
Nearly complete pithos. Orange-brown clay is coarse, with gravel and pebbles in it. Flaring ledge rim; short neck; spherical body tapers to flat base. A rope pattern on a raised band at the base of the neck. Black burn marks on the exterior.
Sidney M. Goldstein reported (1970) that the interior might show evidence of piecing sections together in antiquity. Shown in situ in Fig. 6.23.
- Dimensions
- H. 1.20, Diam. of rim 0.465, Diam. of belly 0.95.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- GGD