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HoB 156: Mycenaean krater fragment. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Mycenaean krater fragment
- Date
- Late Bronze Age, Late Bronze Age
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P16.035
- 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 - E5 / S99 - S105 *95.2 - 94.2
- Findspot
- E3-5 / S99-105 *95.2-94.2
- Description
Fragments of a large krater. Reddish-buff micaceous clay with a red core. Ledge rim has a reddish band along the length of it. Exterior, a red band below the rim, and a tight fat wavy line at handle height. A handle scar. Interior, a red band continues on inside of ledge rim—part of the same band that goes along the top of the rim.
Penelope Mountjoy (2016) considered it LH IIIC.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.25, W. 0.097, est. Diam. 0.28, Th. 0.0093.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- AR