• r8-pc-78-10
    PC 78: East Greek cup. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

    East Greek cup

    Report 8: Ordinary Lydians at Home: The Lydian Trenches of the House of Bronzes and Pactolus Cliff at Sardis (2021) Cat. PC 78
    Date
    Context: 9th to 6th c BC, Lydian
    Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
    P60.190
    Material
    Ceramic
    Object Type
    Pottery
    Pottery Shape
    Cup
    Pottery Ware
    East Greek Geometric
    Pottery Attribution
    Site
    Sardis
    Sector
    PC
    Trench
    PC
    Locus
    PC Zone 1
    B-Grid Coordinates
    *88.41
    Findspot
    Zone 1 *88.41, on pebble floor
    Description
    Cup made of buff-colored fabric. Slightly inturned rim with tapering lip. Below narrow black rim, a reserved band with a register of alternating groups of vertical lines and crossed lines making Xs. Below, three black bands, and then the body of the cup, which is streaky black with at least one horizontal line, possibly added white, painted over it. Interior is streaky black.
    Dimensions
    H. 0.048, Diam. 0.11–0.12, Th. 0.004.
    Comments
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    Author
    NHR

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