• latw-151-1
    Band cup. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)

    Band cup

    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