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HoB 281: Cup, perhaps Cycladic or Euboean Middle Geometric. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Cup, perhaps Cycladic or Euboean Middle Geometric
- Date
- First half of the 8th c BC, Early Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P64.351
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Cup
- Pottery Ware
- East Greek Geometric
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian IV - *96.4 Floor at W20/S115-120
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W20 - W23 / S117.5 - S119 *96.4
- Findspot
- W20-23 / S117.5-119 To *96.40
- Description
- Five fragments (three joining) of the rim and body of a cup. Dark brown paint on a pinkish-buff body. Below rim, a band of concentric circles with one line above and three lines below. Then solid dark paint with a trace of a reserved rectangle. Interior, solid paint, slightly streaky.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.05, Diam. 0.18, Th. 0.005.
- Comments
- Middle Geometric proto-kotyle, first half of the eighth century BC, according to M. Kerschner and N. Aytaçlar (personal communication, Sardis, July 1–2, 2016).
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- AR