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Lydion. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)
Lydion
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 146
- Date
- Ca. 575-540 BC?, Lydian
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 2200
- Museum Inventory No.
- 2200
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P61.009
- 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 off rim, flakes off body. Body horizontally fluted/faceted. Surface, especially body and rim, somewhat worn. Clay orange-tan, micaceous. Decoration in thin brown slip; on rim and inside of neck, streakily applied; on body, either streakily or evenly applied. Height 0.1065 m, maximum diameter 0.096 m.
- Comments
- The lydion was recovered from the same grave as No. 145.
- See Also
- Baughan, “Lydian Burial Customs”; Greenewalt, “Cosmetics”; Greenewalt, “Lydian Pottery”.
- Bibliography
- Greenewalt 1972, 116-117, no. 2, 132-134 (with previous bibliography).
- Author
- CHG