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    HoB 160: Brown on Buff (purplish) jug. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Brown on Buff (purplish) jug

Report 8: Ordinary Lydians at Home: The Lydian Trenches of the House of Bronzes and Pactolus Cliff at Sardis (2021) Cat. HoB 160
Date
Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC, Early Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P12.058
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Jug
Pottery Ware
Lydian Painted - Brown on Buff
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
Locus
HoB Lydian IV - Deep Sounding C
B-Grid Coordinates
E1 - W6 / S105 - S107 to *96
Findspot
W6-E1 / S105-107 To *96.0; W6–E1/S106–109 *96.3–95.7
Description
Three joining fragments of neck and shoulder of jug. Pinkish-buff micaceous clay. Neck probably thrown separately. Break in design suggests a handle. Checkerboard on neck. Three lines encircle the join of neck and shoulder; below, large triangles, obliquely crosshatched, with the center left empty. Exterior is smoothed. Similar to HoB 161, which has triangles completely filled instead of left empty.
Dimensions
H. 0.0515, Diam. of neck 0.0525, Th. 0.0055.
Comments
See Also
Bibliography
Author
AR

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