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HoB 231: Doughnut-shaped loom weight. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Doughnut-shaped loom weight
- Date
- Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC, Early Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- T14.014
- Material
- Terracotta
- Object Type
- Weaving Equipment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian IV - Deep Sounding C
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E0 / S107 *95.25
- Findspot
- E0 / S107 *95.25 down
- Description
- Circular loom weight, flat on one side and more rounded on the other. Orangish-buff micaceous clay; no temper except for a few stones. Hole perforated through middle, slightly off center, with wear from string line on one side.
- Dimensions
- Diam. 0.79, Th. 0.045 m; Wt. 263.4 g.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- AR