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    HoB 558: Lamp body. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Lamp body

Date
Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
L59.081
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Lamp
Pottery Ware
Lydian Painted - Solid
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
Locus
HoB Lydian I - Lydian Room
B-Grid Coordinates
W10 / S70 *98.7
Findspot
W10 / S70 *98.70 ⁓ south of Lydian Room
Description
Lamp body and nozzle fragment. Rounded and open; diagonal and flaring rim; horizontal and high edge; small nozzle; flat bottom with concave center. Decoration, red to black. Exterior, band over rim; band above bottom. Interior, single band inside the lamp; nozzle painted.
Dimensions
H. 0.03, L. 0.09, Th. 0.006.
Comments
See Also
Bibliography
Author
GGD