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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. 112
- Date
- Ca. 500-450 BC, Late Lydian (Persian)
- Museum
- Polatlı, Gordion Museum, 57.771.06
- Museum Inventory No.
- 57.771.06
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Lydion
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Painted - Banded / Waveline
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Gordion
- Description
- Complete, mended from two pieces, chips off rim (Possibly Gordion inv. no. 497 P144). Clay fired reddish buff. Reddish slip applied over lip, rim, and neck; the same slip is applied in a broad spiral band over the reserve surface of the shoulder. Height 0.114 m, maximum diameter 0.075 m.
- Comments
- From the City Mound (i.e. citadel mound) of Gordion (1950). Shape and decoration are typical of the “late” lydion type.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- CHG