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HoB 58: Pithos with incisions and finger marks. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Pithos with incisions and finger marks
- Date
- Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age, Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P62.403
- 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 *95.4 - 95
- Findspot
- E5 / S100 *95.40-95.00
- Description
Two joining shoulder fragments of a large pithos. Incised decoration consists of a band of criss-crossed lines making a diamond pattern, and below that, three rows of diagonal hatching making a herringbone pattern. Above and below these patterns, a design made by drawing a finger through the wet clay.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.195, W. 0.205, Th. 0.02.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- AR