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    HoB 15: Bowl. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Bowl

Date
Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age, Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P66.139
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Bowl
Pottery Ware
Lydian Painted - Micaceous Wash
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
Locus
HoB LBA/EIA - Deep Sounding C - Finds Associated with the Donkey at *94.2
B-Grid Coordinates
E1 - E3 / S100 - S103 *94.6 - 94.2
Findspot
E1–3 / S100–103 *94.6–94.2
Description

Many joining pieces of unpainted shallow bowl with everted rim. Reddish-orange clay. Tan slip, micaceous golden wash on interior; polished. Rim has two subtle fillets followed below by another that projects from the surface. Small vertical handle, round but slightly squarish in section, smoothed into the body; at top of handle and flush with the rim is a lug notched at its sides. Exterior plain and smoothed. Traces of burning on interior and exterior.

Dimensions
H. 0.088, est. Diam. 0.27, Th. 0.006–0.011.
Comments
Analyzed by M. Kerschner (sample Sard 39).
See Also
Bibliography
Author
AR