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Glass alabastron. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College) -
Glass alabastron
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 197
- Date
- Second half of the fifth century BC, Late Lydian (Persian)
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 9053
- Museum Inventory No.
- 9053
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- G03.002
- Material
- Glass
- Object Type
- Glass
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- Nec
- Trench
- Tomb 03.1
- Locus
- Tomb 03.1 Locus 1
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W540 / S995
- Description
- Alabastron of core-formed and trail-decorated translucent dark blue glass. Rounded bottom with slight depression; elongated ovoid body; short neck; horizontal rim with applied trail of opaque yellow glass. Two “duck’s head” handles applied on shoulder. Opaque yellow glass trailed from neck down; bottom register of alternating yellow and light-blue trails is dragged up and down. Two more yellow trails near the base at greatest diameter. Height 0.0926 m, diameter of rim 0.035 cm.
- Comments
- From the same tomb as Nos. 196-205; see comment on No. 196.
- See Also
- Baughan, “Lydian Burial Customs”.
- Bibliography
- Greenewalt 2005, 82-3; forthcoming study by Susanne Ebbinghaus.
- Author
- NDC