• r8-hob-727-10
    HoB 727: Cooking stand. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Cooking Stand

Date
Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P62.446
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Cooking Stand
Pottery Ware
Lydian Cooking Ware
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
Locus
HoB Lydian I - Floor with Puppy Burials at *99.4
B-Grid Coordinates
W19 - W21 / S95 - S97 floor *99.4
Findspot
W19-21 / S95-97 *99.4 floor ⁓ south of Building C
Description
Hearth stand, complete; only small fragments are missing. Tapering cylindrical body, cut away on one side to give access to coals within. Thickened lip with three triangular lugs to support a cooking pot. Handle from rim to mid-body. Eight joining fragments.
Dimensions
H. 0.162, H. with handle 0.177, Diam. of top 0.2, Th. 0.01–0.012.
Comments
See Also
Bibliography
Author
GGD