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Lydion from Gordion. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)
Lydion from Gordion
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 111
- Date
- Ca. 550-520 BC, Late Lydian (Persian)
- Museum
- Polatlı, Gordion Museum, 57.765.06
- Museum Inventory No.
- 57.765.06
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Lydion
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Painted - Banded / Waveline
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Gordion
- Description
- Intact, chips off rim and foot (Possibly Gordion inv. no. 2387 P752). Surface badly worn. Fabric not too fine, sturdy but friable, micaceous; fired light pink. White slip on lip and shoulder. Brick red-to-brown sepia slip (slightly metallic in places) on neck, lower body, and foot; the same applied in a band on the (white-slipped) rim and in a thin spiral band over the (white-slipped) shoulder. Height 0.097 m, maximum diameter 0.071-0.072 m.
- Comments
- From the tumulus cemetery at Gordion, burial A 110 (1952); from the same deposit were recovered another lydion of similar shape and a globular lekythos of Lydian type. The shape is intermediate between the early “fat-bellied” and “late” lydion types.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- CHG