• r8-hob-180-10
    HoB 180: Gray Ware cup or bowl. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Gray Ware cup or bowl

Date
Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC, Early Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P12.032
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Cup, Bowl
Pottery Ware
Lydian Grayware
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
Locus
HoB Lydian IV - Deep Sounding C
B-Grid Coordinates
W3 - W5 / S104 - S105 *95.2 - 94.7
Findspot
W3-5 / S104-105 *95.2-94.7
Description
Handle and body fragment of a shallow Gray Ware cup or bowl. Light, silvery, self-slipped, and polished surface with a body reduced to a uniform gray throughout. Rim has a slightly squared lip. Rim is thinner than the rest of the vessel. Large, round vertical loop handle.
Dimensions
H. 0.0445, H. with handle 0.0755, Diam. of rim 0.105, Th. 0.0025.
Comments
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Author
AR