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    Lydion from Gordion. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)

Lydion from Gordion

Date
Ca. 560-540 BC, Lydian or Late Lydian
Museum
Polatlı, Gordion Museum, 57.764.06
Museum Inventory No.
57.764.06
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Lydion
Pottery Ware
Lydian Painted - Banded / Waveline
Pottery Attribution
Site
Gordion
Description
Intact except for chips from rim (Possibly Gordion inv. no. 1573 P490). Fabric fairly hard, fine, non-micaceous; fired light tan-pink. Red-brown slip streakily applied over lip, neck (outside and partly inside), mid body, lower body, and foot; the same applied in a thin spiral band over the reserve surface of the shoulder. Height 0.098 m, maximum diameter 0.093-0.094 m.
Comments
From the Küçük Höyük at Gordion; recovered (in 1951) together with twenty “nearly complete examples … and fragments of many more … ten nearly complete (lekythoi of Lydian type) and fragments of many others” (Young 1953, 164), and a streaky-glaze skyphos of Lydian type, as well as local Phrygian one-handled spouted jugs. The shape of all the lydia recovered from that Küçük Höyük context, including this example, is the early lydion “fat-bellied” type.
See Also
Bibliography
Young 1953, 164, fig. 8.
Author
CHG