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Skyphos with orientalizing decoration. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul) -
Skyphos with orientalizing decoration. Detail of side decoration. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul) -
Skyphos with orientalizing decoration. Detail of side. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)
Skyphos with orientalizing decoration
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 148
- Date
- Ca. 575-540 BC, Lydian
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 2202
- Museum Inventory No.
- 2202
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P61.001b
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Skyphos
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Painted - Orientalizing
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- Nec
- Trench
- Tomb 61.2
- Locus
- Tomb 61.2 Locus 1
- Description
- Broken and mended. Foot restored. Decoration like No. 147. Height of bowl 0.122 m, diameter of mouth 0.145 m.
- Comments
- From a schist-lined cist burial in the Great Necropolis of Sardis (Inderesi region; grave 61.2).
- See Also
- Baughan, “Lydian Burial Customs”; Greenewalt, “Bon Appetit”; Greenewalt, “Lydian Pottery”.
- Bibliography
- Greenewalt 1972, 119-120, 128-130, no. 5 (with previous bibliography).
- Author
- CHG