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HoB 602: Stone mold. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Stone mold
- Date
- Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- S61.017
- Material
- Stone
- Object Type
- Mold
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian I - Building B and Vicinity
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W5 / S100 *99.3
- Findspot
- W5 / S100 *99.30 floor ⁓ Building B, foot of wall
- Description
Stone (gray-green schist) mold for earrings. Rectangular-shaped; partially broken at one end. Two-sided.
1. Cuttings for two boat-shaped earrings. Boat-shaped ends, below, face to right and each has a pin-line vertical straight ending above; pour channels are placed immediately below the central part of boat-shaped ends. A small depression between the pin-shaped ends, and a larger depression above the mold (partially missing).
2. Nearly three-quarters of a circular cutting placed to left, on the longer edge of mold, leaving the circle open; center of circle cutting is high, flat, and cone-shaped with a tiny hole at center. A pour channel is placed to the central right of circle, on the right edge of mold. Two small depressions, one deep and the other quite shallow, near the lower right corner of mold.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.015, L. 0.071, W. 0.045.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Sardis M8, cat. no. 951.
- Author
- GGD