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    HoB 86: Early Lydian cup (?). (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Early Lydian cup (?)

Date
Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age, Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P62.406
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Cup
Pottery Ware
Lydian Painted - Patterned
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
Locus
HoB LBA/EIA - Deep Sounding B - Below *94.75 Hearth
B-Grid Coordinates
E10 / S90 to *93.2
Findspot
E10 / S90 To *93.20
Description
Vertical band handle and part of the rim of a Protogeometric cup (?). Buff clay with noticeable inclusions. Everted rim. Remains of worn, brownish-black paint on interior and exterior. Traces of narrow pendent concentric semicircles at left of handle.
Dimensions
H. 0.07, est. Diam. 0.18, W. of handle 0.025,Th. 0.005.
Comments
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Author
AR