• latw-146-1
    Lydion. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)

    Lydion

    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