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Glass aryballos. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College) -
Glass aryballos
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 198
- Date
- Second half of the fifth century BC, Late Lydian (Persian)
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 9051
- Museum Inventory No.
- 9051
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- G03.003
- 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
- Aryballos of core-formed and trail-decorated translucent dark blue glass. Round body; short neck, horizontal rim with applied trail of opaque yellow glass. Two handles applied on shoulder; one pale blue, the other yellow, with holes on top for string. Trail in opaque yellow applied beneath yellow handle and pulled around body to form upper register. Center register in alternating opaque yellow and light-blue trail is dragged alternately up and down. Below, near base, two more trails; uppermost is yellow, bottom one is blue. Height 0.0615 m, diameter 0.0535 m.
- 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