• r8-hob-79-10
    HoB 79: Gray Ware jar with ridges. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Gray Ware jar with ridges

Date
Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age, Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P12.051
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Jar
Pottery Ware
Lydian Grayware
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
Locus
HoB LBA/EIA - Deep Sounding B - Below *94.75 Hearth
B-Grid Coordinates
E10 / S90 to *93.8
Findspot
E10 / S90 To *93.8 ⁓ below the hearth, and about two meters to the northwest
Description
Vertical neck of Gray Ware jar with ledge rim. Shallow, recessed groove on exterior below rim; four narrow raised ridges on neck. Light gray fabric with silvery wash is smoothed on exterior and interior, although much thinner on interior.
Dimensions
H. 0.0412, Diam. of rim 0.22, Th. 0.0065.
Comments
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Author
AR