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HoB 155: Mycenaean krater. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Mycenaean krater
- Date
- Late Bronze Age, Late Bronze Age
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P66.119
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Krater
- Pottery Ware
- Mycenaean
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian IV - Deep Sounding C
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E3 - E4 / S103 - S105 *94.9 - 94.2
- Findspot
- E2-W5 / S99-105 *95.2-94.2; E3–4/S103–104 *94.9–94.2
- Description
Rim and upper body of krater. Reddish-buff micaceous clay with a red core. A ledge rim with a few short radial lines. Exterior, a band of orange at rim and a tight fat wavy line below. Interior, orange band at rim. A handle scar on wall.
Penelope Mountjoy (2016) considers it LH IIIC.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.095, Diam. of rim 0.31–0.32, Th. 0.007.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- AR