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HoB 57: Pithos with incised marks and decoration made with a finger. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Pithos with incised marks and decoration made with a finger
- Date
- Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age, Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P12.030
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Pithos
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Plainware
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB LBA/EIA - Deep Sounding B - *94.75 Hearth and Below
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E5 / S100 to *94.75
- Findspot
- E5 / S95-100 To *94.5; E5 / S100 To *94.75
- Description
Large body sherds of a coarse pithos with incised decoration. Reddish-buff fabric with some mica. On the shoulder, large oval shapes made by pressing a finger in the wet clay, and below these, several rows of a herringbone pattern made with a tool held at one angle for one row and then with the tool at a different angle for the next row; below this, the beginning of a field of crosshatching. On the wider part of the body, again traces of the herringbone pattern, then more of the large shapes made with a finger, and below that, diamond-shaped crosshatching. Traces of burning.
- Dimensions
- Frag. W. 0.35, L. 0.18, Th. 0.0255; Frag. W. 0.27, L. 0.19, Th. 0.023.
- Comments
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- Bibliography
- Author
- AR