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Cooking pot lid, view of bottom. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul) -
Cooking pot lid. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)
Cooking pot lid
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 64
- Date
- Ca. mid-6th c BC, Lydian
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 6677
- Museum Inventory No.
- 6677
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P84.077
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Cooking Pot Lid
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Cooking Ware
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- MMS
- Trench
- MMS-I 84.1
- Locus
- MMS-I 84.1 Locus 34
- Description
- Flat profile, with flaring knob handle. Part of circumference cut away to provide space for cooking pot handle. Intact. Height 0.054, diameter 0.200.
- Comments
- From a Lydian house destroyed in the mid-sixth century BC (Area 1, with Nos. 16, 62, 65, 66, 68, 72, 73, 75, 81, 87, 88, 96, 97, 100, 102, 103, 137, 138), together with two cooking pots and stand No. 62. It is too large for either of the two cooking pots found with it, however, and this is true of other pot-and-lid combinations found and apparently used together in the Lydian houses. Perhaps the cooking pots were more prone to breaking, and equipment originally made as sets quickly became separated.
- See Also
- Cahill, “City of Sardis”; Greenewalt, “Bon Appetit”; Cahill, “Persian Sack”.
- Bibliography
- Greenewalt et al. 1988, 28, n. 13, fig. 11.
- Author
- NDC