• r8-hob-77-10
    HoB 77: Carinated storage jar. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Carinated storage jar

Date
Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age, Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P62.468
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Jar
Pottery Ware
Non-Local?
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
Locus
HoB LBA/EIA - Deep Sounding B - Below *94.75 Hearth
B-Grid Coordinates
E10 / S95 - S100 *93.9 - 93
Findspot
E10 / S95-100 *93.90-93.00
Description

Fragment of the belly of a carinated storage jar. Dense purplish body with white slip on exterior; many small light-colored inclusions. Hard fired. Added coil at carination.

Perhaps an import.

Dimensions
H. 0.08, W. 0.073, Th. 0.01, Th. of flange 0.026.
Comments
See Also
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Author
AR