• r8-hob-90-10
    HoB 90: Buff Ware jug with incised decoration. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Buff Ware jug with incised decoration

Date
Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age, Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P62.405
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Jug
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
E10 / S90 to *93.2
Findspot
E10 / S90 To *93.20
Description
Shoulder and stub vertical band handle of large Buff Ware jug. Shallow groove at neck. Variegated hatching incised in opposite directions in registers to create zigzags on handle. Also a row of incisions on each side of the handle. Interior buff. Exterior is smoothed.
Dimensions
H. 0.095, W. 0.155, W. of handle 0.045, Th. of handle 0.013.
Comments
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Author
AR