• r8-pc-136-10
    PC 136: Gray Ware baby feeder. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Gray Ware baby feeder

Date
Context: 9th to 6th c BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P13.034
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Feeder
Pottery Ware
Lydian Grayware
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
PC
Trench
PC
Locus
PC Beneath LVC/South
B-Grid Coordinates
*87.5 - 87
Findspot
Test pit beneath LVC/South *87.50–87.00
Description
Approximately half of a globular Gray Ware baby feeder, preserving whole profile except the spout and handle. Surface burnished. Cf. PC 12 and baby feeders from HoB: HoB 215 (from a ninth- or eighth-century level in Deep Sounding C) and HoB 344.
Dimensions
H. 0.066, Diam. 0.073, Th. of base 0.009, Th. of wall 0.008, Th. of neck 0.0035.
Comments
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Author
NHR