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HoB 56: Painted lid of large pithos (?). (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Painted lid of large pithos (?)
- Date
- Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age, Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P62.404
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Lid
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Painted - Patterned
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB LBA/EIA - Deep Sounding B - *94.75 Hearth and Below
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E5 / S90 *94.8 - 94.5
- Findspot
- E5 / S90 *94.80-94.50
- Description
- Domical lid, perhaps of a pithos. Coarse and dense; red fabric, gray core. Exterior has a recessed groove that follows the circumference of the lid, and a second groove, thus making a shallow ridge between them. Orangey red is painted on the raised ridge. Two registers of painted red concentric circles are separated by a thick red band. Traces of a third red band. The concentric circles carry over into the red bands and the groove around the lid. Exterior and interior are slipped a lighter orange slip.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.068, est. Diam. 0.42–0.45, Th. 0.014.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- AR