• latw-197-1
    Glass alabastron. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
  • latw-197-2
    Glass oinochoe (No. 196), aryballoi (Nos. 198-199), and alabastron (No. 197). (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Glass alabastron

Date
Second half of the fifth century BC, Late Lydian (Persian)
Museum
Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 9053
Museum Inventory No.
9053
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
G03.002
Material
Glass
Object Type
Glass
Site
Sardis
Sector
Nec
Trench
Tomb 03.1
Locus
Tomb 03.1 Locus 1
B-Grid Coordinates
W540 / S995
Description
Alabastron of core-formed and trail-decorated translucent dark blue glass. Rounded bottom with slight depression; elongated ovoid body; short neck; horizontal rim with applied trail of opaque yellow glass. Two “duck’s head” handles applied on shoulder. Opaque yellow glass trailed from neck down; bottom register of alternating yellow and light-blue trails is dragged up and down. Two more yellow trails near the base at greatest diameter. Height 0.0926 m, diameter of rim 0.035 cm.
Comments
From the same tomb as Nos. 196-205; see comment on No. 196.
See Also
Baughan, “Lydian Burial Customs”.
Bibliography
Greenewalt 2005, 82-3; forthcoming study by Susanne Ebbinghaus.
Author
NDC