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    HoB 65: Closed vessel with concentric semicircles. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Closed vessel with concentric semicircles

Report 8: Ordinary Lydians at Home: The Lydian Trenches of the House of Bronzes and Pactolus Cliff at Sardis (2021) Cat. HoB 65
Date
Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age, Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P62.459
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Body Sherd
Pottery Ware
Lydian Painted - Patterned
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
Locus
HoB LBA/EIA - Deep Sounding B - Below *94.75 Hearth
B-Grid Coordinates
E0 - E3 / S95 - S97 * *94.25 - 94
Findspot
E0-3 / S95-97 *94.25-94.0
Description
Body fragment of a closed vessel; vessel thickens considerably where the handle would have been attached. Buff, micaceous fabric. Brown painted decoration on exterior includes two horizontal bands on which are standing concentric semicircles; also a diagonal band that cuts across the two horizontal bands.
Dimensions
H. 0.06, W. 0.085, Th. 0.006, Th. of handle 0.013.
Comments
See Also
Bibliography
Author
AR

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