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    PC 132: Cooking stand. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Cooking Stand

Date
Early Iron Age, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P60.398
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Cooking Stand
Pottery Ware
Lydian Cooking Ware
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
PC
Trench
PC
Locus
PC Beneath LVC/South
B-Grid Coordinates
*87.4
Findspot
LVC/South *87.40
Description

Fragment includes the rim and inward-facing spur of a hearth stand. The triangular spur, sloping downward, would have supported a cooking pot over the fire. A small lump of clay was added on the rim at the side of the spur. Black gritty fabric with signs of heavy burning. Found near handle with graffito, PC 130.

Cf. LATW, p. 458, cat no. 62.

Early Iron Age.

Dimensions
H. 0.052, W. 0.065, L. of pointed spur 0.04.
Comments
See Also
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Author
NHR