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HoB 262: Pithos with incised pattern. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Pithos with incised pattern
- Date
- Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC, Early Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P60.563
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Pithos
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Plainware
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian IV - Deep Sounding A
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E10 - E15 / S100 - S105 in *95.41 - 95.2
- Findspot
- E10-15 / S100-105 In *95.41-95.20 floor
- Description
- Fragment of the wall of a pithos with a band of oblique crosshatching; heavily incised pattern (to a depth of ca. 0.0015 m) made with a round-ended implement. Lower edge of pattern defined by a raised band. Pattern is similar to that found on other pithos fragments from the same level.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.053, W. 0.066, Th. 0.13.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- AR