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    HoB 383: East Greek Geometric cup. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

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
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Author
AR