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Provincial Lydian bichrome stemmed dish. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul) -
Provincial Lydian bichrome stemmed dish, side view. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul) -
Provincial Lydian bichrome stemmed dish, side view. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)
Provincial Lydian bichrome stemmed dish
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 107
- Date
- First half of 6th c BC, Lydian
- Museum
- Polatlı, Gordion Museum, 117.370.99
- Museum Inventory No.
- 117.370.99
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery, Graffito
- Pottery Shape
- Stemmed Dish
- Pottery Ware
- Lydianizing Painted - White Bichrome - Patterned
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Gordion
- Description
- Plain rim; flaring base; plain stem (Gordion inv. no. 10983 P4495 +10938 P4482). Clay very pale brown (10 YR 7/4). Decoration yellowish red (5 YR 5/8) to red (2.5 YR 4/8), and in reddish black (2.5 YR 2.5/1). Interior: creamy-white slipped, top to bottom: red band along rim; red band framed with single black line above and below; pendant concentric semi-circles in black and ascendant concentric semi-circles in red over creamy-white slip; four parallel bands in black over red painted surface; pendant concentric semi-circles in black and ascendant concentric semi-circles in red over creamy-white slip; at the center of the bowl, star-rosette alternately painted in red and black encircled with two black bands. Exterior, top to bottom, band along rim and below rim; two bands in black; pendent rays painted in red and ascendant rays in black; two bands above and on the middle part of the foot on a red painted surface. Three graffiti: Phrygian “y” (yod) incised after firing, two on underside of bowl, and one underside of base. Diameter of the rim 0.278 m, diameter of the base 0.113 m, height 0.143 m.
- Comments
- From a refuse pit in the Middle Phrygian level of the City Mound at Gordion (CM, CC3.E, Pit G, under cellar). For graffiti on stemmed dishes from Sardis, probably marks of ownership, cf. Nos. 82-85.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- DeVries 1990, 392, fig. 27; Roller 1987, fig. 28, 2B-7; Gürtekin-Demir 2007, 64, 74, 77, cat. no. 48.
- Author
- GG-D