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HoB 395: Large cup. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Large cup
- Date
- Context: last quarter of 8th c BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P12.085
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Cup
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Painted
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian III - Deep Sounding C and Vicinity
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W5 - W8 / S90 - S93 *97.9 - 97.6
- Findspot
- W5-8 / S90-93 *97.9-97.6
- Description
- Fragment of a large cup with nicked rim. Reddish-orange clay with light gray core. Rim covered in light red band, below which is a reserved metopal pattern of alternating groups of vertical lines and wavy lines done with a multiple brush; a band of darker solid red on at least one side of metope; below this register is another solid band. Interior has a wide red band from the rim downward. Cf. HoB 396. Local fabric.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.0485, Diam. 0.24, Th. 0.0065.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- AR