• r8-hob-88-10
    HoB 88: Clay basin of breadtray fabric. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Clay basin of breadtray fabric

Date
Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age, Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P12.053
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Basin
Pottery Ware
Breadtray
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 *93.2
Findspot
E10 / S90 To *93.20
Description
A fragment, part of the base and wall, of a straight-edged clay basin with a thick vertical wall and thick, flat base. Medium-hard breadtray fabric with large pebble inclusions. Interior somewhat smoothed but exterior is very uneven. Cf. HoB 217.
Dimensions
H. 0.0775, W. 0.060, L. 0.138.
Comments
See Also
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Author
AR