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Lydion. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)
Lydion
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 145
- Date
- Ca. 575-540 BC?, Lydian
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 2201
- Museum Inventory No.
- 2201
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P61.008
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Lydion
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Painted - Banded / Waveline
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- Nec
- Trench
- Tomb 61.1
- Locus
- Tomb 61.1 Locus 1
- Description
- Intact, except for nicks of rim. Form somewhat uneven (small depressions in body surface, undulant rim). Clay pale gray-brown, micaceous. Decoration in dark sepia-brown and, apparently, cream slips. Over rim, inside and outside of neck, lower body, and foot dark slip streakily applied. On shoulder, dark slip applied in narrow spiraling band or narrow parallel bands, apparently over cream slip. Height 0.095 m, maximum diameter 0.92 m.
- Comments
- The lydion was recovered from a grave in the Great Necropolis of Sardis (Inderesi region, Grave 61.1; not shown in Roosevelt 2009, 137 fig. 6.1), together with No. 146 and a fragmentary lekythos-jug (Greenewalt 1972, 117-118 no. 3, pl. 3 fig. 2). The grave was identified from two schist slabs, perhaps cover slabs for a simple cist grave; the slabs were located 3-4 m north of the grave that contained Nos. 147-154 (grave 61.2).
- See Also
- Baughan, “Lydian Burial Customs”; Greenewalt, “Cosmetics”; Greenewalt, “Lydian Pottery”.
- Bibliography
- Greenewalt 1972, 116-117, no. 1, 132-134 (with previous bibliography).
- Author
- CHG