• r8-hob-95-10
    HoB 95: Closed painted vessel, Late Mycenaean? (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Closed painted vessel, Late Mycenaean?

Date
Late Helladic IIIC, Late Bronze Age
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P62.448
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Closed Vessel
Pottery Ware
Mycenaean?
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
Locus
HoB LBA/EIA - Low Levels of Deep Sounding B
B-Grid Coordinates
E10 / S90 - S95 to *92.8
Findspot
E10 / S90-95 To *92.80; E5–8.5 / S90–92 *93.90–93.73.
Description

Two joining body fragments from a closed vessel of piriform shape. Reddish clay polished on the exterior. Most of the profile preserved. The three horizontal bands with crosshatched triangles above are all painted reddish-brown.

Penelope Mountjoy (2016) suggested it is probably LH IIIC.

Dimensions
H. 0.10, W. 0.10, Th. 0.005.
Comments
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Author
AR