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| Title: | Pithos or Bothros in Byzantine "Room D". | |
| Category: | Pithos | |
| Keyword: | FixChildren | |
| Description: | "Room D" is the triangular area at L/15,16-2/10,12, NW of Wall 1, in E corner of basement of No.3. Hastings Street, bounded by the NE and SE walls of basement). Bell-shaped vessel built of horizontally-laid broken tile and small field stones, the lowest course of stones resting on a hard-packed yellow clay layer. The vessel is unlined and so may have been intended for drainage rather than for storage. | |
| Contents: | Yellow-glazed white ware; brown-glazed juglets and chafing-dish fragments; cooking pots and lids; columnar lamps; coarse wares with incised decoration including spirals, "fork-tine" marks, and a sherd with birds at a fountain. | |
| Chronology: | 10th-11th c. A.D. | |
| Date: | July 2003 June 2004 | |
| Section: | ΒΗ | |
| Grid: | L/15,16-2/10,12 | |
| References: | Image: 2012.87.1361 (2006-15-10) Image: 2012.87.1373 (2006-15-22) Image: 2012.87.1463 (2006-18-7) |
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