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    HoB 243: Imported Geometric cup. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Imported Geometric cup

Report 8: Ordinary Lydians at Home: The Lydian Trenches of the House of Bronzes and Pactolus Cliff at Sardis (2021) Cat. HoB 243
Date
Context: 9th to mid-8th c BC, Early Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P62.290
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Cup
Pottery Ware
Greek Geometric
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
Locus
HoB Lydian IV - Deep Sounding B
B-Grid Coordinates
E5 / S95 *96.2
Findspot
E5 / S95 *96.20
Description
Cup fragment with geometric design. Fine pinkish-buff micaceous clay. Vertical rim, slightly offset. Brown painted decoration. Exterior rim has band of diamonds with a dot at the center, bordered on either side by two horizontal bands. Below rim is a metopal pattern with sets of vertical lines alternating with two hand-drawn concentric circles, the smaller one crosshatched in the center. Interior of fragment is painted brown. Polished on interior and exterior.
Dimensions
H. 0.046, Diam. 0.20, Th. 0.004.
Comments
See Also
Bibliography
Author
AR

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