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HoB 347: Greek Geometric cup. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Greek Geometric cup
- Date
- Second half of the 8th c BC., Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P66.064
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Cup
- Pottery Ware
- East Greek Geometric
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian III - Central Area
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W0 - W3 / S98 - S100 *97.3 - 96.3
- Findspot
- W0-3 / S98-100 *97.3-96.3
- Description
Small fragment of Greek Geometric cup (bird skyphos group). Fine, buff clay with dark inclusions. Part of geometric tree design with three vertical lines to right. Dark band at rim. Interior dark.
M. Kerschner assigned this to the second half of the eighth century. (Note: Cf. Coşgun Özgünel, Late Geometric pottery from Smyrna.)
- Dimensions
- H. 0.025, est. Diam. 0.12–0.14, Th. 0.003–0.005.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- AR