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HoB 297: Heavy Gray Ware bowl with double spool handle. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Heavy Gray Ware bowl with double spool handle
- Date
- Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC, Early Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P12.009
- 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 - W6 / S93 - S96 *96.7 - 96.3
- Findspot
- W0-6 / S93-96 *96.7-96.3
- Description
- Gray Ware bowl. Ledge rim on exterior appears as a raised band. Spool handle has three raised ridges and deep indentations between them. A further raised portion above ridges has been broken off. Thus, the spools are part of an even more elaborate handle. Polished inside and out, and given a silvery wash on exterior. Shape also found in Black on Red.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.063, Diam. ca. 0.38, Th. of wall 0.0166, Th. of rim 0.019.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- AR