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HoB 101: Iron knife blade. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Iron knife blade
- Date
- Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age, Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- M12.003
- Material
- Iron
- Object Type
- Metalwork
- Metalwork Type
- Tool, Weapon or Armor
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB LBA/EIA - Low Levels of Deep Sounding B
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E5 - E8.5 / S90 - S92 *93.9 - 93.73
- Findspot
- E5-8.5 / S90-92 *93.90-93.73
- Description
- Small, oblong iron knife blade. Bottom of blade curves up to meet top of blade, which is straight and level. Rectangular tang.
- Dimensions
- W. 0.0128, L. 0.0572, W. of tang 0.0065.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Hanfmann, “Sardis 1962,” p. 7.
- Author
- AR