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    PC 62: Cooking pot with impressed boss. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Cooking pot with impressed boss

Date
Context: 9th to 6th c BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P13.035
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Cooking Pot
Pottery Ware
Lydian Cooking Ware
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
PC
Trench
PC
Locus
PC Zone 2
B-Grid Coordinates
*88.5
Findspot
Zone 2 test pit *88.50
Description

Fragment of a large round cooking pot with a boss. The boss was impressed in two directions, making an X across the top surface. Made by a round-shaped implement such as a small bone that was pressed in the clay. The broken fragment was apparently cut down for reuse, perhaps as a game piece. Clear evidence of burning. Compare HoB 209 and HoB 263.

Dimensions
H. 0.070, W. 0078, Th. 0.008.
Comments
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Author
NHR