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    HoB 21: Gray Ware cup with handle. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Gray Ware cup with handle

Date
Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age, Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P12.017
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Cup
Pottery Ware
Lydian Grayware
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
Locus
HoB LBA/EIA - Deep Sounding C - Finds Associated with the Donkey at *94.2
B-Grid Coordinates
E1 - E3 / S100 - S103 *94.6 - 94.2
Findspot
E1–3 / S100–103 *94.6–94.2
Description
Slightly outward curving wall of cup. Dark reddish clay that has inclusions; gray on outside; silvery wash on exterior and interior, though much less on interior. Base of handle at carination at the bottom of cup’s side.
Dimensions
H. 0.065, Diam. of rim 0.095, Th. 0.005.
Comments
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Author
AR