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Waveline amphora. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)
Waveline amphora
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 72
- Date
- Ca. mid-6th c BC, Lydian
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 7087
- Museum Inventory No.
- 7087
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P84.099
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Amphora
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Painted - Banded / Waveline
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- MMS
- Trench
- MMS-I 84.1
- Locus
- MMS-I 84.1 Locus 34
- Description
- Large waveline amphora. Small ring foot, ovoid body, slightly flaring neck with thickened lip. Two handles. Wavy line on neck; two wide diverging bands framing handles; symmetrical S-shaped tendril design on shoulder; wide streaky-glaze band on shoulder and narrower band on lower body. Complete, mended from many fragments. Few traces of wear or use; the vessel was probably close to new when the house was destroyed. Height 0.433 m, diameter of rim 0.243 m, diameter of shoulder 0.435 m.
- Comments
- From a Lydian house destroyed in the mid-sixth century BC (Area 1, with 16, 62, 64, 65, 66, 68, 73, 75, 81, 87, 88, 96, 97, 100, 102, 103, 137, 138). The waveline amphora is one of the most common shapes of Lydian vessel and, like the column krater (e.g., No. 73), is probably derived from Greek pottery shapes.
- See Also
- Greenewalt, “Lydian Pottery”; Cahill, “City of Sardis”; Greenewalt, “Bon Appetit”; Cahill, “Persian Sack”.
- Bibliography
- Greenewalt et al. 1988, 26-7, fig. 12.
- Author
- NDC