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    HoB 78: Pithos with incised chevron pattern. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Pithos with incised chevron pattern

Date
Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age, Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P12.035
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 - Below *94.75 Hearth
B-Grid Coordinates
E10 / S95 - S100 *94.2 - 93.7
Findspot
E10 / S95-100 *93.9-93.0; E10 / S95–100 *94.2–93.7
Description
Rim of large storage vessel. Reddish-orange micaceous clay with gray core. Ledge rim; below, on neck, two raised bands flanking an incised chevron pattern.
Dimensions
H. 0.15, Th. 0.0105.
Comments
See Also
Bibliography
Author
AR