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HoB 640: Pithos. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Pithos
- Date
- Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P63.507
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Pithos
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Plainware
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian I - Building D and Extension
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W15 - W13 / S105 - S108 *99.4
- Findspot
- W13-15 / S105-108 *99.4 floor ⁓ Building D
- Description
- Body fragment of pithos. Not painted. A graffito, made before firing, is composed of deep incision lines forming a star that probably had six points (four points are preserved).
- Dimensions
- L. 0.115, W. 0.144, Th. 0.013.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- GGD