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Band cup. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)
Band cup
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 151
- Date
- Ca. 575-540 BC, Lydian
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 2207
- Museum Inventory No.
- 2207
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P61.002
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Band Cup
- Pottery Ware
- East Greek
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- Nec
- Trench
- Tomb 61.2
- Locus
- Tomb 61.2 Locus 1
- Description
- Broken and mended. Foot restored. Outside, dark slip on handles and body except for reserve bands as follows: narrow at base of lip, broad in handle zone, narrow on lower body. Inside, dark slip except for narrow reserve band below rim. Height of bowl 0.092 m, diameter of mouth 0.186 m.
- Comments
- From a schist-lined cist burial in the Great Necropolis of Sardis (Inderesi region; grave 61.2). The foot is restored on the model of similar cups from Panionion (Kerschner et al. 2008, Taf. 43 no. 7) and Tocra in Libya (Boardman and Hayes 1966, 134, pl. 89 no. 1400).
- See Also
- Baughan, “Lydian Burial Customs”; Greenewalt, “Lydian Pottery”.
- Bibliography
- Greenewalt 1972, 121-122, 134-135, no. 10 (with previous bibliography).
- Author
- CHG