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    PC 12: Gray Ware baby feeder. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Gray Ware baby feeder

Date
Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age, Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P60.198
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Feeder
Pottery Ware
Lydian Grayware
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
PC
Trench
PC
Locus
PC Zone 3
B-Grid Coordinates
*87.8
Findspot
Zone 3 *87.80
Description

Small Gray Ware baby feeder with silvery slip. Ovoid juglet with everted rim and rounded lip. Band handle attached from rim to the widest part of the belly. Small sucking spout, circular in section and with a very small hole, was separately attached to the vessel at its widest point. Flat base. Exterior is polished. Cf. others from PC as well as HoB 215.

Dimensions
H. 0.073, W. of body 0.074, Diam. of rim 0.04, Diam. of base 0.04.
Comments
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Author
NHR