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Lydion from Gordion. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)
Lydion from Gordion
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 110
- 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