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HoB 143: Lydian cup. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Lydian cup
- Date
- Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC, Early Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P66.178
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Cup
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Painted - Brown on Buff
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian IV - Deep Sounding C
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W1.5 - W3.5 / S88 - S92 to *95.6
- Findspot
- W1.5-3.5 / S88-92 To *95.6
- Description
- Fragment of nicked rim and upper body. Buff micaceous clay. Exterior, dark band on rim; below, a metopal frieze with alternating groups of vertical lines and a single, thick vertical wavy band. Interior, band at rim; streaky reddish brown below. Smoothed interior and exterior.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.04, est. Diam. 0.18, Th. 0.004.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- AR