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HoB 1: Early Lydian cup. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Early Lydian cup
- Date
- 9th or early 8th c BC, Early Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P66.107
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Cup
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Painted - Brown on Buff
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB LBA/EIA - Deep Sounding C - Finds Associated with the Donkey at *94.2
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E2 / S106 *94.7
- Findspot
- E2 / S106 *94.7
- Description
Joining fragments of large cup with complete profile. Orangish-buff micaceous clay. Slightly everted rim; globular body; vertical strap handle; flaring ring foot. Dark brown, thick band at rim with pendent concentric semicircles. Two incised lines at the level of the attachment of the bottom of the handle; dark brown band below; thick band around the foot. Brown horizontal bands on handle and one vertical line along left edge. Interior, dark brown band at rim level.
- Dimensions
- H. without handle 0.12, H. with handle 0.135, Diam. of rim 0.14, Diam. of base 0.067, W. of handle 0.023.
- Comments
Thought by M. Kerschner to be of local manufacture; he would describe these as “sub-Protogeometric” and estimates a date in the ninth century or early eighth century B.C. However, local developments in shapes could be different from the coast. A. Ramage thinks this piece is ninth century or earlier. See discussion on pp. 41-42.
Analyzed by M. Kerschner (sample Sard 40).
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Hanfmann, "Sardis 1966," p. 35, n. 6, fig. 13; Hanfmann and Mierse, SPRT, fig. 28.
- Author
- AR