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Oinochoe. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)
Oinochoe
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 74
- Date
- Ca. mid-6th c BC, Lydian
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 8813
- Museum Inventory No.
- 8813
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P00.015
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Oinochoe
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Painted
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- MMS/S
- Trench
- MMS/S 00.1
- Locus
- MMS/S 00.1 Locus 376
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E145.31 - E145.51 / S116.33 - S116.57 *102.45 - 102.29
- Description
- Globular ceramic oinochoe with trefoil rim. Ring foot, globular body, low neck with trefoil rim. Ridge around base of neck. Single rounded handle joins rim horizontally. Entire exterior and interior of neck coated in thin, slightly streaky red slip. Four horizontal white bands at midpoint of body below handle; two bands at bottom of foot. Row of dots on ridge at base of neck. Mended from many fragments, complete. Little worn. Slip darkened on portion exposed to fire in destruction, red on portion facing earth floor, suggesting original color was red before the house burned. Height 0.225 m, diameter of body 0.18 m.
- Comments
- From a Lydian house destroyed in the mid-sixth century BC (Area 7). Lydian jugs or oinochoai come in many different forms, even in the same houses at the same periods. Two major types in the time of Croesus are this and No. 75, but there are other varieties as well. Compare Nos. 39, 43.
- See Also
- Greenewalt, “Lydian Pottery”; Cahill, “City of Sardis”; Greenewalt, “Bon Appetit”; Cahill, “Persian Sack”.
- Bibliography
- Greenewalt 2002.
- Author
- NDC