Cup Handle Sherd
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Cup Handle Sherd
Early Bronze Age III2400 BCE - 2000 BCE
Clay
2 11/16 x 1 3/4 x 3 5/8 in. (6.8 x 4.4 x 9.2 cm)
Bryn Mawr College
Accession Number:
2009.14.566
Other Number(s):
A 1187 (Site No.)
Geography:
Asia, Turkey, Tarsus
Classification:
Unclassifiable Artifacts; Artifact Remnants; Sherds
Culture/Nationality:
Prehistoric Anatolian
Collection:
Tarsus Excavation
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- Anatolian - Refers to the culture and styles that developed in antiquity in the geographical area of modern Turkey.
- cups - Open bowl-shaped vessels, used chiefly for drinking, often having one handle, but sometimes two handles or none, generally on a low foot-ring; also includes similar bowl-shaped vessels, generally without handles, resting on a stem and supported by a spreading foot. Occasionally made with a lid.
- Early Bronze Age - Refers to the earliest phase of Bronze Age cultures, which developed differently in different regions, either from Chalcolithic or Neolithic technologies. It differs from the Middle and Late Bronze Age cultures primarily in metal assemblages and burial rites. It is characterized in part by the earliest experimentation with copper alloys to produce bronze, as well as the improvement of stone tools, and various other local cultural developments. Some scholars classify the Chalcolithic as the earliest phase of the Bronze Age.
- handles - Those portions of, or attachments to, objects that are designed to be grasped by the hand.
- sherds - Limited to fragments of pottery or glass.
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