LATW Cat. 38
Pottery
Ceramic
Ca. 575-525 BC (Lydian)
Intact except for small rim parts. Clay reddish-tan, micaceous, friable. Outside, highly micaceous yellowish slip.
LATW Cat. 42
Pottery
Ceramic
Ca. 575-525 BC (Lydian)
Intact. Clay reddish-tan, micaceous. Inside around rim and outside, highly micaceous yellowish slip.
LATW Cat. 47
Miscellaneous
Bone
Ca. 575-525 BC (Lydian)
“skeleton…almost complete. Missing (in 1974 examination by Fitzgerald and Trum) lumbar, sacral and some caudal vertebrae (three of the last present); some carpals, metacarpals, tarsals, metatarsals; portions of skull (no sagittal crest); baculum. Dec...
LATW Cat. 61
Pottery
Ceramic
Ca. mid-6th c BC (Lydian)
Ceramic cooking pot (chytra) of clay, with many fine sand inclusions to prevent the vessel from cracking when placed on the fire (cookingware). Flat bottom, globular body, thickened rim. High-swung strap handle. Intact. Height 0.133 m, diameter of ri...
LATW Cat. 62
Pottery
Ceramic
Ca. mid-6th c BC (Lydian)
Coarse cookingware stand to support a cooking pot on a hearth. Wheel-made tapering cylindrical body with ca. one-fourth of the diameter cut away to give access to coals within. Thickened lip, with beveled top where cooking pot rests. Three triangular...
LATW Cat. 63
Pottery
Ceramic
Ca. mid-6th c BC (Lydian)
Small globular cooking pot of coarse cookingware. Flat bottom, globular body, outturned rim. High-swung strap handle. Thin wash on exterior surface. Interior slightly eroded from use, exterior reddened on one side. Mended from fragments, almost compl...
LATW Cat. 64
Pottery
Ceramic
Ca. mid-6th c BC (Lydian)
Flat profile, with flaring knob handle. Part of circumference cut away to provide space for cooking pot handle. Intact. Height 0.054, diameter 0.200.
LATW Cat. 65
Pottery
Ceramic
Ca. mid-6th c BC (Lydian)
Large strainer with three handles. Wide flaring lip, bowl-like perforated central strainer, which is pierced from the outside with holes. Score marks on exterior guided placement of holes. Three horizontal handles, circular in section, with flat lug-...
LATW Cat. 66
Pottery
Ceramic
Ca. mid-6th c BC (Lydian)
Plain coarse bowl with incurved rim. Irregular string-cut base, gently curving body, slightly ridged, slightly inturned rim. Almost complete, mended. Height 0.085-0.089, diameter of rim 0.132-0.147 m.
LATW Cat. 67
Stone Vessel
Basalt, Marble, Stone
Ca. mid-6th c BC (Lydian)
Basalt mortar and white rubbing stone or pestle. Mortar is a shallow bowl with low vertical rim and three legs. The interior is worn smooth from use; the exterior is smoothly worked but not polished. Legs rectangular in section with vertical grooves ...
LATW Cat. 68
Metalwork
Iron
Before mid-6th c BC (Lydian)
Iron. Rectangular sheet reinforced along the long sides by two narrow strips, one of which has slipped out of position and lies diagonally across the sheet. (The method of attachment has not been identified.) The main sheet was perforated with many s...
LATW Cat. 69
Organic
Organic
Mid-6th c BC (Lydian)
Samples of carbonized foodstuffs from the Lydian houses in sector MMS-I (Cahill, “City of Sardis”), Areas 1, 3, and 4-6. These include wheat and barley, which would have been the staples of most ancient diets; tiny chickpeas; and carbonized garlic.