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    HoB 201: Gray Ware storage jar with ridges. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Gray Ware storage jar with ridges

Date
Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC, Early Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P12.038
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Jar
Pottery Ware
Lydian Grayware
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
Locus
HoB Lydian IV - Deep Sounding C
B-Grid Coordinates
E3.5 - E5 / S104 - S106 *95.5 - 95.3
Findspot
E3.5-5 / S104-106 *95.5-95.3
Description
Vertical neck with ledge rim of Gray Ware storage jar. Dark gray micaceous clay. On the underside of the ledge rim is a narrow, raised band. Four raised ridges encircle the neck. Small repair hole above raised bands. Exterior and interior are smoothed.
Dimensions
H. 0.061, int. Diam. of rim 0.23, Th. 0.0085.
Comments
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Author
AR