• r8-hob-298-10
    HoB 298: Small Gray Ware cup. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Small Gray Ware cup

Date
Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC, Early Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P14.018
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Cup
Pottery Ware
Lydian Grayware
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
Locus
HoB Lydian IV - Gray Ware and Other Monochrome from ca. *97.0 to *94.75
B-Grid Coordinates
W2 - W5 / S102 - S105 *96.7 - 96.2
Findspot
W2-5 / S102-105 *96.7-96.2 ⁓ Deep Sounding C
Description
Small steep sided cup with vertical wall that slightly flares; simple tapered rim; curved lower wall bends sharply where it transitioned to a flat bottom. Fine dark gray with some mica. Interior and exterior have silvery wash and are both stick polished.
Dimensions
H. 0.051, Diam. 0.010, Th. 0.005.
Comments
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Author
AR