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    HoB 471: 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.
P62.494
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Pithos
Pottery Ware
Lydian Plainware
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
Locus
HoB Lydian II - W20-25/S95-100 *98.4 Floor-*97.8
B-Grid Coordinates
W20 / S100 floor *98.4 - 97.8
Findspot
W20 / S100 *98.40-97.80, below edges of floor
Description
Body sherd of pithos. An incised mark of a diagonal zigzag and a bisecting horizontal line that had been pressed into the wet clay.
Dimensions
L. 0.05, W. 0.053, Th. 0.014.
Comments
See Also
Bibliography
Author
GGD