East Greek Geometric cup
- Date
- Second half of the 8th c BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P70.016
- 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 - South Side
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W4 - W15 / S112 - S118 floor *97
- Findspot
- W4-15 / S112-118 *97.0 floor
- Description
Imported East Greek Geometric cup. Orangey brown on buff; little mica. Exterior: crosshatched triangle below a row of horizontally opposed solid triangles [“butterflies”] between groups of vertical lines. Registers separated by pairs of horizontal lines. Interior, solid red. Finely levigated clay.
M. Kerschner (July 1–2, 2016) identified this as of the older type of decoration with the butterfly, and suggested a date in the second half of the eighth century.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.034, W. 0.05, Th. 0.004.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- AR