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HoB 264: Pithos, thumbprints on rim. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Pithos, thumbprints on rim
- Date
- Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC, Early Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P60.548
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Pithos
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Plainware
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Deep Sounding A
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E10 - E15 / S100 - S105 *95.46 - 94.83
- Findspot
- E10-15 / S100-S105 *95.20-94.96; E10–15 / S100–105 *95.46–94.83
- Description
- Twenty-one fragments of rim, shoulder, and base of a large pithos. Thickened rim marked on the exterior by pressed thumb prints that were probably used to stick on more clay for a yet thicker rim. Oblique slashes added at the base of the neck. Neck flaring to shoulder has a raised rope pattern. Base is flat.
- Dimensions
- A: H. 0.235, est. Diam. of rim 0.50, Th 0.025; B: H. 0.09, Diam. of base 0.20.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- AR