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    PC 117: Gray Ware deep omphalos phiale. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Gray Ware deep omphalos phiale

Date
Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age, Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P60.444
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Omphalos Phiale
Pottery Ware
Lydian Grayware
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
PC
Trench
PC
Locus
PC Beneath LVC/North
B-Grid Coordinates
*89.5 - 88
Findspot
Beneath LVC/North *89.50–88.00
Description
Shallow, Gray Ware bowl with everted rim and rounded lip. Three recessed grooves (the lowest of which is more prominent) run horizontally around the body of the vessel. Center has an omphalos. Smoothed on interior and polished on exterior.
Dimensions
H. 0.06, Diam. of rim 0.15–0.16, Diam. of base 0.042, Th. 0.007.
Comments
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Author
NHR