• r8-hob-106-10
    HoB 106: Rod or spit holder. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Rod or spit holder

Date
Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age, Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
T02.008
Material
Terracotta
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Spit Holder
Pottery Ware
Lydian Plainware
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
Locus
HoB LBA/EIA - Round Hut and Cremation Burial
B-Grid Coordinates
E5 - E10 / S90 - S95 to *91.4
Findspot
E5-10 / S90-95 *91.40
Description
Fragment of an oval terracotta object used as a rod or spit holder. Two projections at the top may have been part of a row used to steady rods or a spit. Compare HoB 230, from Deep Sounding C.
Dimensions
W. 0.052, L. 0.104, Th. 0.057.
Comments
See Also
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Author
AR