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    PC 6: Geometric carinated cup. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Geometric carinated cup

Date
Context: 9th to 6th c BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P60.111
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Cup
Pottery Ware
Uncertain
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
PC
Trench
PC
Locus
PC Zone 4
B-Grid Coordinates
*88.24 - 88
Findspot
Zone 4 *88.24–88.00
Description
Rim fragment of an open vessel, perhaps a cup, with inward carination. Dark orangish-red fabric with a buff-colored slip on exterior and a red slip on interior that also covers the rim. Geometric decoration: a narrow black line beneath the rim and then a zone of hatched meanders. Two horizontal lines below.
Dimensions
H. 0.035, L. 0.042, Th. 0.004; rim too small to provide a Diam.
Comments
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Author
NHR