• r8-hob-347-10
    HoB 347: Greek Geometric cup. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Greek Geometric cup

Date
Second half of the 8th c BC., Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P66.064
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 - Central Area
B-Grid Coordinates
W0 - W3 / S98 - S100 *97.3 - 96.3
Findspot
W0-3 / S98-100 *97.3-96.3
Description

Small fragment of Greek Geometric cup (bird skyphos group). Fine, buff clay with dark inclusions. Part of geometric tree design with three vertical lines to right. Dark band at rim. Interior dark.

M. Kerschner assigned this to the second half of the eighth century. (Note: Cf. Coşgun Özgünel, Late Geometric pottery from Smyrna.)

Dimensions
H. 0.025, est. Diam. 0.12–0.14, Th. 0.003–0.005.
Comments
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Author
AR