• r8-hob-339-10
    HoB 339: Gray Ware lid. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Gray Ware lid

Date
Context: last quarter of 8th c BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P65.221
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Lid
Pottery Ware
Lydian Grayware
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
Locus
HoB Lydian III - Central Area
B-Grid Coordinates
W2 - W5 / S97 - S101 *97.4
Findspot
W2-5 / S97-101 *97.4
Description
Large, domical Gray Ware lid with inward-turned rim. Coarse, dark clay. Stump of handle remains; presumably a matching one on the other side. Reconstituted from pieces found at several spots in the Central Area. Imprint of yarn around the edge; apparently decorative in purpose. The inside retains strong indications of throwing marks while the outside shows much more hand working. Fragments of the lid indicate heavy burning. As there was no sign of a bowl to go with it, this may have been specifically for smoking food over a fire.
Dimensions
H. 0.05, Diam. of rim 0.54, Th. 0.008.
Comments
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Author
AR