R8 Cat. HoB 70

Pottery

Ceramic

Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age (Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian)

Two joining fragments of rim, slightly everted, with horizontal lug handle. Handle is notched on both sides and perforated with an off-center vertical hole. Traces of silvery wash.

R8 Cat. HoB 71

Pottery

Ceramic

Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age (Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian)

Shoulder fragment of a pithos. Red clay. Slight depression where the thickness of wall thins toward the neck. Two vertical incised lines and a trace of a third one on neck. A round hole was drilled through the wall.

R8 Cat. HoB 72

Pottery

Ceramic

Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age (Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian)

Rim fragment of a shallow Gray Ware bowl, slightly carinated. Silvery wash. Horizontal lug handle perforated with vertical hole.

R8 Cat. HoB 73

Pottery

Ceramic

Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age (Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian)

Body fragment of krater. Reddish-buff fabric with some mica. Brownish-black band with pendent concentric semicircles. Exterior polished, interior plain.

R8 Cat. HoB 74

Pottery

Ceramic

Late Bronze Age (Late Bronze Age)

Shallow bowl fragment with flaring rim. Pinkish-buff micaceous clay. Polished surface on exterior and interior.

Late Bronze Age.

R8 Cat. HoB 75

Pottery

Ceramic

Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age (Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian)

Small rim fragment of Brown on Buff cup. Exterior of rim has thin brown painted line. Interior, wider band along rim. Paint is slightly streaky.

Mycenaean import?

R8 Cat. HoB 76

Pottery

Ceramic

Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age (Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian)

Rim, handle, and shoulder of plain jug. Reddish fabric. Raised ridge at base of neck. Handle from rim to shoulder has round section and a knob at top and bottom. Neck made separately from body.

R8 Cat. HoB 77

Pottery

Ceramic

Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age (Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian)

Fragment of the belly of a carinated storage jar. Dense purplish body with white slip on exterior; many small light-colored inclusions. Hard fired. Added coil at carination.

Perhaps an import.

R8 Cat. HoB 78

Pottery

Ceramic

Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age (Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian)

Rim of large storage vessel. Reddish-orange micaceous clay with gray core. Ledge rim; below, on neck, two raised bands flanking an incised chevron pattern.

R8 Cat. HoB 79

Pottery

Ceramic

Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age (Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian)

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.

R8 Cat. HoB 80

Pottery

Ceramic

Late Bronze Age (Late Bronze Age)

Small shallow carinated bowl with everted rim. Fine buff micaceous clay. Rim is much thinner-walled than the rest of the vessel. Cf. HoB 82.

Late Bronze Age.

R8 Cat. HoB 81

Pottery

Ceramic

Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age (Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian)

Base and part of wall of a streaked and banded bowl. Buff fabric. Streaked brownish-black with darker bands on exterior. Signs of secondary burning on the interior and exterior.

Perhaps an import based on the color of the paint (iron, not manganese).

R8 Cat. HoB 82

Pottery

Ceramic

Late Bronze Age (Late Bronze Age)

Rim of a plain Buff Ware carinated bowl with everted rim. Fine textured fabric. Above the carination, the rim is much thinner than the wall of the bowl. Cf. HoB 80.

Late Bronze Age.

R8 Cat. HoB 83

Pottery

Ceramic

Late Bronze Age (Late Bronze Age)

Rim of plain Buff Ware bowl. Outwardly thickened, flaring rim with lip narrowing to the top. Slipped on interior for a very smooth finish.

Late Bronze Age.

R8 Cat. HoB 84

Pottery

Ceramic

Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age (Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian)

Rim of Buff Ware cup or bowl. Slightly offset, everted rim, painted on interior and exterior with a brownish-black band.

R8 Cat. HoB 85

Pottery

Ceramic

Late Bronze Age (Late Bronze Age)

Everted, flat ledge rim. Micaceous buff fabric.

Late Bronze Age.

R8 Cat. HoB 86

Pottery

Ceramic

Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age (Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian)

Vertical band handle and part of the rim of a Protogeometric cup (?). Buff clay with noticeable inclusions. Everted rim. Remains of worn, brownish-black paint on interior and exterior. Traces of narrow pendent concentric semicircles at left of handle...

R8 Cat. HoB 87

Pottery

Ceramic

Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age (Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian)

Slightly everted flat rim of cup. Creamy slip on exterior with pendent semicircles in dark red below a broad band of the same color on and below the rim. Interior wet-smoothed and wheel marked.

R8 Cat. HoB 88

Pottery

Ceramic

Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age (Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian)

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.

R8 Cat. HoB 89

Pottery

Ceramic

Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age (Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian)

Shoulder fragment of a jug. Reddish-brown micaceous clay. Horizontal wavy line above a smaller horizontal wavy line bordered below by another horizontal line. Exterior polished.

R8 Cat. HoB 90

Pottery

Ceramic

Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age (Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian)

Shoulder and stub vertical band handle of large Buff Ware jug. Shallow groove at neck. Variegated hatching incised in opposite directions in registers to create zigzags on handle. Also a row of incisions on each side of the handle. Interior buff. Ext...

R8 Cat. HoB 91

Pottery

Ceramic

Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age (Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian)

Fragment of small bowl with delicate everted rim. Buff, fine micaceous clay. Micaceous wash on polished exterior.

R8 Cat. HoB 92

Pottery

Ceramic

Late 9th c (Early Lydian)

Small bowl or cup with everted rim. Buff fabric. Small ridge runs along the top of the shoulder of the vessel. Thick purple-black band on exterior of rim; the band does not run evenly. On body, two parallel wavy lines with evidence of a third straigh...

R8 Cat. HoB 93

Pottery

Ceramic

Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age (Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian)

Body fragment of carinated bowl with everted rim. Orangish-buff micaceous clay. Exterior, streaky brown bands. Interior, streaky dark brown. Interior and exterior smoothed. Found with HoB 94 and HoB 92.

R8 Cat. HoB 94

Pottery

Ceramic

Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age (Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian)

Fragment of a shoulder of a jug. Thick-walled reddish-buff fabric with a heavy concentration of grainy, dark inclusions. On exterior, horizontal black band with red band below. Smoothed on exterior, but not polished.