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HoB 605: 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.
- S63.006
- Material
- Stone
- Object Type
- Mold
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian I - Building B and Vicinity
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W20 / S110 - S115 to *100.9
- Findspot
- W20 / S110-115 To *100.90 ⁓ west of Building F
- Description
- Stone (gray-green schist) mold for jewelry. Possibly narrow, rectangular-shaped; small fragment of central mold preserved. Cutting preserved on one side, near the longer edge of mold: three-quarters of a circle with a central tiny hole; pour channel placed nearly at the center of circular cutting on the other long edge of mold. A small circular depression near upper right corner of mold. Another circular more shallow depression is on the long left edge.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.016, L. 0.032, W. 0.03.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Sardis M8, cat. no. 953.
- Author
- GGD