• m10-lak-3-10
    Overview of rim fragment. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
  • m10-lak-3-20
    Drawing. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Lakonian II Cup Fragment

Date
Ca. 600 BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P64.114
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Cup
Pottery Ware
Lakonian
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
PN
Trench
PN
B-Grid Coordinates
W253.50 / S343 *87.40
Description

Small rim fragment. Delicate construction. Clay pink tan (5 YR 7/6--6/6). Decoration in cream (10 YR 8/4) slip, black (N2/) glaze. Interior: black glaze, over which narrow cream band near top.

Exterior: cream slip, over which black ladder-and-dot pattern.

The color differences of the slip of Lak 2 and Lak 3 suggest that they belong to two different cups.

Dimensions
P.H. 0.011; P.L. 0.026; est. diam. of rim 0.14--0.22; Th. at bottom 0.002.
Comments
See Also
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Author
CHG