• r8-hob-296-10
    HoB 296: Large Gray Ware bowl with impressed triangles. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Large Gray Ware bowl with impressed triangles

Date
Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC, Early Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P14.017
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Bowl
Pottery Ware
Lydian Grayware
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
Locus
HoB Lydian IV - Gray Ware and Other Monochrome from ca. *97.0 to *94.75
B-Grid Coordinates
W0 - W5 / S95 - S99 *96.8 - 96.6
Findspot
W0-5 / S95-99 *96.8-96.6
Description
Large bowl fragment with thick, everted rim. Dark gray micaceous clay. Below rim, a thick, raised band with impressed triangles in two rows; the top row had downward-pointing triangles and the bottom has upward-pointing ones. Traces of silvery wash on interior. Both interior and exterior polished. Cf. HoB 294.
Dimensions
H. 0.0655, est. Diam. 0.46, Th. 0.01.
Comments
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Author
AR