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HoB 212: Fragment of painted vessel, turned into a loom weight?. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Fragment of painted vessel, turned into a loom weight?
- Date
- Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC, Early Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P13.199
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Body Sherd
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Painted
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian IV - Deep Sounding C
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E1 - W5 / S104 - S109 *95.5 - 95.2
- Findspot
- E1-W5 / S104-109 *95.5-95.2
- Description
- Fragment from an unknown part of a painted vessel; buff micaceous clay. Red compass-drawn pendent semicircles below a band. The remains of a sizable hole indicates that this was reused as a disk with a hole, possibly a loom weight. Compare PC 50.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.034, W. 0.054, Th. 0.009.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- AR