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Ritual Dinner skyphos. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)
Ritual Dinner Skyphos
The Lydians and their World
Cat. 40
- Date
- Ca. 575-525 BC, Lydian
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 2143
- Inventory No.
- 2143
- Sardis CATNUM
- P61.402
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Skyphos
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Tableware
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Locus cd10
- Description
- Intact. Clay reddish-tan, micaceous. Inside, reddish slip; outside except for reserve handle zone and underside of foot, streaky reddish-to-sepia slip. Height 0.0965 m; diameter of rim 0.096-097 m.
- Comments
- Discussed
- Greenewalt, “Bon Appetit”; Greenewalt, “Gods of Lydia”; Cahill, “City of Sardis”; Greenewalt, “Lydian Pottery”
- Bibliography
- Greenewalt 1978b, 62, no. cd 10.3.
- Author
- CHG