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Cutaway-spouted jug. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)
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Cutaway-spouted jug. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)
Cutaway-Spouted Jug
The Lydians and their World
Cat. 5
- Date
- Early Bronze Age, ca. 2500-2000 BC, Early Bronze Age
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 7494
- Inventory No.
- 7494
- Sardis CATNUM
- P69.036
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Jug
- Pottery Ware
- EBA Gray-Brown Ware
- Site
- Ahlatlı Tepecik
- Sector
- BT
- Trench
- EB 69.1
- Locus
- EB 69.1 Locus Burial EB 69.3
- Description
- Round bottom, slightly globular body. Offset neck high and straight (almost vertical) in front, short and curved in back, with mouth at steep angle. Oval section handle attached via tenon. Tiny (0.0035 m) hole below right rear lug. Three pellets around body. Height 0.16-0.17 m; diameter 0.13 m.
- Comments
- From an Early Bronze Age grave at Ahlatlı Tepecik on the shore of the Gygaean Lake (Grave 69.3), with Nos. 1-6.
- Discussed
- Roosevelt, “Lydia Before the Lydians”
- Bibliography
- Hanfmann et al. 1970, 15, fig. 4.
- Author
- NDC