• r8-hob-87-10
    HoB 87: Imported Protogeometric cup. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Imported Protogeometric cup

Date
Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age, Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P62.407
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Cup
Pottery Ware
East Greek Geometric
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
Slightly everted flat rim of cup. Creamy slip on exterior with pendent semicircles in dark red below a broad band of the same color on and below the rim. Interior wet-smoothed and wheel marked.
Dimensions
H. 0.44, Diam. 0.23, Th. 0.008.
Comments
Cf. Ersoy 2004, p. 45 and figs. 3 and 4.
See Also
Bibliography
Author
AR