R8 Cat. HoB 120

Pottery

Ceramic

1275–1240 BC (Late Bronze Age)

Rim and vertical band handle of an imported Mycenaean jug. Buff colored surface. Handle has a red curved line painted between the vertical lines that run along the edge; solid red at top of handle. Penelope Mountjoy, from photos (2016), thought it mi...

R8 Cat. HoB 121

Pottery

Ceramic

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

Fragment of shoulder of large closed handmade jar. Brownish body, polished. Fragments of two concentric circles; within the inner one, two blobs. A row of chevrons with a dot next to the first one in purplish paint.

R8 Cat. HoB 122

Pottery

Ceramic

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

Fragment of a thick-walled Black on Red closed vase. Crosshatched meander pattern that shows an apparent pre-firing erasure of errant paint. Red surface polished, and paint added over it. Interior plain. Interior of body fully reduced to dark gray. T...

R8 Cat. HoB 123

Pottery

Ceramic

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

Body fragment of large closed jar. Pinkish, micaceous clay for body and interior. Brown band on buff ground; smooth surface. Stance unknowable.

R8 Cat. HoB 124

Pottery

Ceramic

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

Two joining rim fragments of a large carinated bowl. Rolled rim, slightly everted. Buff ware with a reddish tinge, burned on one edge.

R8 Cat. HoB 125

Pottery

Ceramic

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

Two joining rim fragments of carinated bowl. Light reddish fabric. Ledge rim. Highly polished Buff Ware.

R8 Cat. HoB 126

Pottery

Ceramic

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

Steep-walled cup with high vertical handle, set crooked on the body; round section to handle. Red fabric. Surface smoothed by stick marks on exterior. Interior, wheel marks.

R8 Cat. HoB 127

Pottery

Ceramic

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

Several joining fragments of body and neck of a Gray Ware jug with vertical band handle. Slight groove at join of thin-walled neck and body.

R8 Cat. HoB 128

Pottery

Ceramic

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

Rim, body, and base of a rounded cooking pot in three nonjoining sections. Rim accentuated with incised line. Two flat plate handles, almost certainly placed opposite each other. Heavily burned on exterior.

R8 Cat. HoB 129

Knucklebone or Gaming Piece

Terracotta

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

Terracotta knucklebone fragment; pierced with several holes. May have been used as a handle for something.

R8 Cat. HoB 130

Pottery

Ceramic

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

Rim of Buff Ware bowl. Rim is slightly thicker than the body. Highly polished on exterior and interior. Knob at 0.04 m below rim on exterior. This piece comes from a small test pit in the west side of HoB (between the later Buildings O and J).

R8 Cat. HoB 131

Pottery

Ceramic

Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC (Early Lydian)

Rim fragment of Black on Buff. Buff-red clay with some mica. Reserved rim has three radial lines in black. Interior and exterior covered with purplish-black slip.

R8 Cat. HoB 132

Pottery

Ceramic

Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC (Early Lydian)

Five joining fragments of a thin-walled shallow bowl with slightly inturned rim and rounded lip. Red micaceous clay. Interior rim is decorated with groups of radiating lines. Interior and exterior polished.

R8 Cat. HoB 133

Pottery

Ceramic

Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC (Early Lydian)

Rim and body of shallow painted bowl. Red micaceous clay with gray core. Exterior, reddish-brown band at rim below which are sets of vertical lines that rest on a thick streaky band. Interior, dark brown streaky. Interior and exterior smoothed. Simil...

R8 Cat. HoB 134

Pottery

Ceramic

Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC (Early Lydian)

Body fragment of shallow bowl. Red micaceous clay; buff exterior with reddish brown paint. Exterior dark band along the rim of bowl and sets of vertical lines above a thick band below. Interior slipped black. Exterior smoothed. Similar to HoB 133.

R8 Cat. HoB 135

Pottery

Ceramic

Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC (Early Lydian)

Horizontal lug handle, attached at rim. Orangish-red clay with some mica. Exterior, dark red band painted along rim, including the lug handle. Thick band of red further below. Interior is entirely black; polished. Lug handle pierced with a hole throu...

R8 Cat. HoB 136

Pottery

Ceramic

Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC (Early Lydian)

Deep bowl with squared rim. Orangish-red micaceous clay. Whitish, creamy slip on both exterior and interior, although it is much lighter and less well preserved on the interior. Wide, recessed band below the lip of the bowl. A half-spool, triangular ...

R8 Cat. HoB 137

Pottery

Ceramic

Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC (Early Lydian)

Everted rim fragment. Buff micaceous clay. Dark brown wide band on rim, on both interior and exterior. Beginnings of painted decoration of four lines, probably pendent concentric semicircles, below band on exterior.

R8 Cat. HoB 138

Pottery

Ceramic

Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC (Early Lydian)

Everted rim fragment of bowl with strong carination. Red micaceous clay. Exterior decorated at rim with dull black line below which is a tall narrow zigzag pattern bordered on either side by a horizontal line. Another black line just above point of c...

R8 Cat. HoB 139

Pottery

Ceramic

Late Geometric (Early Lydian)

Rim fragment of imported Greek bowl. Fine buff clay, painted brown inside. Exterior: two bands at rim; below these, a row of diamond shapes with a dot in the middle of each, placed side to side vertically. Below these, another band. Paint brownish.

Pr...

R8 Cat. HoB 140

Pottery

Ceramic

Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC (Early Lydian)

Fragment of vertical rim with globular body. Pinkish-red micaceous clay with grayish core. Two raised bands on neck; and a pierced hole for mending on neck. Interior and exterior both smoothed and painted streaky in brownish-black.

R8 Cat. HoB 141

Pottery

Ceramic

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

Complete loop handle tilts upward toward rim. Black/brown band at rim, on handle, and two horizontal bands below handle. Interior, band at rim; bands in a lighter wash below.

Mycenaean or imported Protogeometric. M. Kerschner: “Sub-Protogeometric”; an...

R8 Cat. HoB 142

Pottery

Ceramic

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

Fragment of a carinated cup with a slight nick below the [missing] rim. Reddish-buff micaceous clay. Red painted decoration on exterior: horizontal band with vertical downward strokes; thick band below.

Imported, perhaps Mycenaean. Penelope Mountjoy (...

R8 Cat. HoB 143

Pottery

Ceramic

Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC (Early Lydian)

Fragment of nicked rim and upper body. Buff micaceous clay. Exterior, dark band on rim; below, a metopal frieze with alternating groups of vertical lines and a single, thick vertical wavy band. Interior, band at rim; streaky reddish brown below. Smoo...

R8 Cat. HoB 144

Pottery

Ceramic

Late Geometric (Early Lydian)

Fragment of rim of nicked cup. Buff micaceous clay. Black and brown decoration on buff. Exterior rim is painted with a black band; below is a metopal arrangement with alternating vertical wavy lines and vertical straight lines in brown. Interior pain...