• r8-hob-372-10
    HoB 372: Cooking pot with high handle. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Cooking pot with high handle

Date
Context: last quarter of 8th c BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P12.025
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Cooking Pot
Pottery Ware
Lydian Cooking Ware
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
Locus
HoB Lydian III - In Association with Human Remains
B-Grid Coordinates
W6.5 - W9 / S90 - S93 *96.3 - 96
Findspot
W6.5-9 / S90-93 *96.3-96.0
Description
Four joining fragments of high-handled cooking pot. Gray coarse micaceous clay with quartz inclusions. Band handle has two slightly raised ridges. Outwardly flaring rim with vertical profile. Globular body, much blackened by smoke.
Dimensions
H. 0.108, H. with handle 0.135, Diam. of rim 0.12, Th. 0.006.
Comments
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Author
AR