• r8-hob-87-10
    HoB 87: Imported Protogeometric cup. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

    Imported Protogeometric cup

    Report 8: Ordinary Lydians at Home: The Lydian Trenches of the House of Bronzes and Pactolus Cliff at Sardis (2021) Cat. HoB 87
    Date
    Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age, Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian
    Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
    P62.407
    Material
    Ceramic
    Object Type
    Pottery
    Pottery Shape
    Cup
    Pottery Ware
    East Greek Geometric
    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
    Slightly everted flat rim of cup. Creamy slip on exterior with pendent semicircles in dark red below a broad band of the same color on and below the rim. Interior wet-smoothed and wheel marked.
    Dimensions
    H. 0.44, Diam. 0.23, Th. 0.008.
    Comments
    Cf. Ersoy 2004, p. 45 and figs. 3 and 4.
    See Also
    Bibliography
    Author
    AR

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