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HoB 202: Jar with sign or decoration. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Jar with sign or decoration
- Date
- Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC, Early Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P12.108
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Jar
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Plainware
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian IV - Deep Sounding C
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W2 - W5 / S92 - S96 *96.3 - 96
- Findspot
- W2-5 / S92-96 *96.3-96.0
- Description
- Ledge rim of a large storage jar. Buff orange micaceous clay. Incised into the wet clay was an irregular-shaped sign or decoration made with a pointed tool. Traces of burning on interior and exterior.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.073, est. Diam. 0.24, Th. 0.014.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- AR