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    HoB 237: Iron sickle blade. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Iron sickle blade

Date
Early Iron Age, Early Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
M11.004
Material
Iron
Object Type
Metalwork
Metalwork Type
Tool
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
Locus
HoB Lydian IV - Deep Sounding C
B-Grid Coordinates
W4 - W6 / S89 - S92 *95.3 - 94.8
Findspot
W4-6 / S89-92 *95.3-94.8
Description

Sickle blade, encrusted. Concave blade curves to a pointed tip.

Early Iron Age.

Dimensions
L. 0.2, W. 0.026.
Comments
See Also
Bibliography
Hanfmann and Mierse, SPRT, fig. 30; Sardis M8, cat. no. 118; Hanfmann, "Sardis 1966," p. 36.
Author
AR