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HoB 71: Pithos with incised mark and hole. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Pithos with incised mark and hole
- Date
- Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age, Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P62.440
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Pithos
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Plainware
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB LBA/EIA - Deep Sounding B - Below *94.75 Hearth
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E6 - E5 / S90 - S93 *94.1 - 93.9
- Findspot
- E5-6 / S90-93 *94.10-93.90
- Description
- Shoulder fragment of a pithos. Red clay. Slight depression where the thickness of wall thins toward the neck. Two vertical incised lines and a trace of a third one on neck. A round hole was drilled through the wall.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.85, W. 0.177, Th. 0.025, Diam. of hole 0.022–0.224.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- AR