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HoB 422: Iron sickle. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Iron sickle
- Date
- Context: early to third quarter of 7th c BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- M18.005
- Material
- iron
- Object Type
- Metalwork
- Metalwork Type
- Tool
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian II - Building H
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W31 - W35 / S125 - S128 *99.2 - 99
- Findspot
- W31-35 / S125-128 *99.20-99.00
- Description
- Three joining fragments. Corroded. Blade, curved with a concave edge; at one end half is preserved with a single iron rivet.
- Dimensions
- L. 0.15, W. of haft 0.024, L. of rivet 0.026.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Sardis M8, cat. no. 119.
- Author
- GGD