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Lydion. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
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Lydion. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Lydion
The Lydians and their World
Cat. 97
- Date
- Ca. mid-sixth century BC, Lydian
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 6431
- Inventory No.
- 6431
- Sardis CATNUM
- P85.026
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Lydion
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Tableware
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- MMS
- Trench
- MMS-I 85.1
- Locus
- MMS-I 84.1 Locus 34
- Description
- Horizontally ridged lydion, with conical foot, globular body, wide flaring neck, everted, slightly downturned rim. Painted with streaky black lustrous slip, burned. Intact except for chips on foot and rim. Height 0.070 m, diameter 0.058 m.
- Comments
- Found with Corinthian aryballos No. 100; see commentary for that item.
- Discussed
- Greenewalt, “Lydian Pottery”; Greenewalt, “Cosmetics”; Cahill, “City of Sardis”
- Bibliography
- Greenewalt et al. 1988, 68, n. 14, figs. 10, 14-15.
- Author
- NDC