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HoB 393: Black on Red Cup. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Black on Red Cup
- Date
- Context: last quarter of 8th c BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P66.065
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Cup
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Painted - Black on Red - Patterned
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian III - Deep Sounding C and Vicinity
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W0 - W2 / S107 - S108 *97 - 96.6
- Findspot
- W0-2 / S107-108 *97-96.6
- Description
- One handle and rim of Black on Red cup, and smaller, unattached piece of same. Red, micaceous clay. Horizontal loop handle with shorter and longer vertical lines on outside; handle projects slightly above rim. Painted concentric circles under handle. Checkerboard pattern below rim, and pendent concentric semicircles below that. Interior has a row of concentric circles with a dot in the center of each. Interior and exterior slipped and smoothed.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.055, Diam. 0.13, Th. 0.002–0.004.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- AR