-
Rosette bowl, side view. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)
Rosette bowl
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 150
- Date
- Ca. 575-540 BC, Lydian
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 2217
- Museum Inventory No.
- 2217
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P61.006
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Bowl
- Pottery Ware
- East Greek
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- Nec
- Trench
- Tomb 61.2
- Locus
- Tomb 61.2 Locus 1
- Description
- Broken and mended. One handle and rim parts missing. Outside, dark slip over rim, at bottom of bowl, and on foot, and for decoration as follows: in handle zone central dot rosette flanked by stripes; below handle zone, broad band. Inside, dark slip over which narrow bands and central dot in red. Height 0.042 m, diameter of mouth 0.11 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, “Lydian Pottery”.
- Bibliography
- Greenewalt 1972, 121, 134-135, no. 9; (with previous bibliography).
- Author
- CHG