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Flask. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)
Flask
The Lydians and their World
Cat. 76
- Date
- Ca. mid-sixth century BC, Lydian
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 6599
- Inventory No.
- 6599
- Sardis CATNUM
- P86.114
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Flask
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Tableware
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- MMS
- Trench
- MMS-I 86.1
- Locus
- MMS-I 86.1 Locus 125
- Description
- Large ceramic flask, meant to rest horizontally. Lentoid body thrown in two parts, very neatly joined with hardly a trace of a seam. Lower surface almost flat, upper convex. Neck with slightly thickened rim joined to one edge of body, angled slightly up. Two horizontal handles joined to edge on either side of neck. Black streaky-glaze on upper vessel, with two creamy bands framed by narrow purple bands. Reddish-brown cross painted on plain bottom. Mended from many fragments, almost complete. Height 0.114 m, diameter 0.263 m.
- Comments
- From the yard of a Lydian house (Area 4-6, with Nos. 67, 70, 71, 77, 79, 89, 98, 99).
- Discussed
- Greenewalt, “Lydian Pottery”; Cahill, “City of Sardis”; Greenewalt, “Bon Appetit”; Cahill, “Persian Sack”
- Bibliography
- Greenewalt et al. 1990, 151, fig. 14.
- Author
- NDC