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Oinochoe. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)
Oinochoe
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 75
- Date
- Ca. mid-6th c BC, Lydian
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 6546
- Museum Inventory No.
- 6546
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P84.101
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Oinochoe
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Painted - Banded / Waveline
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- MMS
- Trench
- MMS-I 84.1
- Locus
- MMS-I 84.1 Locus 34
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E147.2 / S67.4 *100.4 - 100.3
- Description
- Ceramic trefoil rim oinochoe. Plain disk foot, ovoid body, cylindrical neck with trefoil rim. Narrow high-swung strap handle. Rather poorly thrown, with major irregularities. Short, thick pendant petals on shoulder; two bands framing handle from neck to shoulder. Wide red streaky-glaze band around lower body, with three irregular purple bands painted over it. Exterior of handle painted with streaky-glaze. Mended from fragments, almost complete. Burned before and after breaking. Height 0.162 m, diameter of body 0.145 m.
- Comments
- From a Lydian house destroyed in the mid-sixth century BC (Area 1, with Nos. 16, 62, 64, 65, 66, 68, 72, 73, 81, 87, 88, 96, 97, 100, 102, 103, 137, 138). With its petal decoration on the shoulder, this is the other, and most common type of jug in Lydian ceramics in the mid-sixth century BC.
- 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