• latw-111-1
    Lydion from Gordion. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)

    Lydion from Gordion

    The Lydians and their World (2010) Cat. 111
    Date
    Ca. 550-520 BC, Late Lydian (Persian)
    Museum
    Polatlı, Gordion Museum, 57.765.06
    Museum Inventory No.
    57.765.06
    Material
    Ceramic
    Object Type
    Pottery
    Pottery Shape
    Lydion
    Pottery Ware
    Lydian Painted - Banded / Waveline
    Pottery Attribution
    Site
    Gordion
    Description
    Intact, chips off rim and foot (Possibly Gordion inv. no. 2387 P752). Surface badly worn. Fabric not too fine, sturdy but friable, micaceous; fired light pink. White slip on lip and shoulder. Brick red-to-brown sepia slip (slightly metallic in places) on neck, lower body, and foot; the same applied in a band on the (white-slipped) rim and in a thin spiral band over the (white-slipped) shoulder. Height 0.097 m, maximum diameter 0.071-0.072 m.
    Comments
    From the tumulus cemetery at Gordion, burial A 110 (1952); from the same deposit were recovered another lydion of similar shape and a globular lekythos of Lydian type. The shape is intermediate between the early “fat-bellied” and “late” lydion types.
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    Author
    CHG

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