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    HoB 185: 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.
P14.030
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Cup
Pottery Ware
Lydian Grayware
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
Locus
HoB Lydian IV - Deep Sounding C
B-Grid Coordinates
W2 - W5 / S99 - S100 *95.2 - 94.5
Findspot
W2-5 / S99-100 *95.2-94.5
Description
Cup with slightly everted lip and flaring walls. Gray micaceous clay. Stump of handle near point of carination; handle would be a vertical band handle; flat base. Interior and exterior both have traces of silvery wash and are smoothed.
Dimensions
H. 0.0495, est. Diam. 0.08, Th. 0.008.
Comments
See Also
Bibliography
Author
AR