Cooking ware amphora neck
- Date
- Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P14.047
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Amphora, Hydria
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Cooking Ware
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian I - Pot Hoard A at *99.05
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W21 / S99 *99.05
- Findspot
- W21 / S99 *99.05 ⁓ south of Building C (“Hoard A”)
- Description
Four fragments of rim, neck, shoulder, and handle of amphora in cooking ware. It is rare to have a pot of this shape in this fabric. Everted and thickened rim; nearly vertical neck; articulated sharp transition at the join between neck and shoulder; vertical strap handles (handle stumps preserved). Neatly trimmed at junction with shoulder. Apparently reused as a pot stand. See also HoB 524–HoB 533, HoB 702–HoB 707, and HoB 765.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.104, Diam. of rim 0.24, Th. of shoulder 0.013.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- GGD