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    Rosette bowl, side view. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)

    Rosette bowl

    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