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Bowl with spool-shaped attachments and marbled decoration. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)
Bowl with spool-shaped attachments and marbled decoration
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 149
- Date
- Ca. 575-540 BC, Lydian
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 2206
- Museum Inventory No.
- 2206
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P61.005
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Bowl with Spool-Shaped Attachments
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Painted - Marbled
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- Nec
- Trench
- Tomb 61.2
- Locus
- Tomb 61.2 Locus 1
- Description
- Broken and mended. Outside plastic features include a pair of perforated spool handles, eight vertical lugs (four on either side between handles), narrow band connecting handles and lugs at their mid-point. Height (not including handles) 0.065 m, diameter 0.283 m.
- Comments
- From a schist-lined cist burial in the Great Necropolis of Sardis (Inderesi region; Grave 61.2). The shape is Phrygian; the marbling slip decoration Lydian (precisely as with a sieve-spouted cup from a Sardis grave, now New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, no. 14.30.9, shown in reduced-scale facsimile, Greenewalt, “Bon Appetit!”). The shape is attested at Gordion, Ankara, and elsewhere, including Manisa in Lydia, by many examples in bronze, also in other media, including pottery and (pear) wood (Young 1981, 229-233; Kohler 1995, 203-204). The perforated handles might have held ring attachments of another material (cf. bowls of similar design from Gordion: Young 1981, 125-130 nos. MM 55-69 (bronze bowls with bronze ring handles), 60-61 nos. TumP 145, 146, probably 147 (wooden bowls with bronze ring handles). A closely similar bronze bowl was found in the Basmacı Tumulus near Güre, No. 158.
- See Also
- Baughan, “Lydian Burial Customs”; Greenewalt, “Lydian Pottery”.
- Bibliography
- Knudsen 1964; Greenewalt 1972, 122-123, 130-131; Gürtekin-Demir 2014, 227, cat. no. 6.
- Author
- CHG