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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. 199
- Date
- Second half of the fifth century BC, Late Lydian (Persian)
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 9052
- Museum Inventory No.
- 9052
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- G03.004
- 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, broken; top missing. One of two applied handles preserved in its entirety. Both should have gone vertically from neck to shoulder of vessel. One preserved handle. Trail in opaque yellow applied beneath one handle and pulled around body to form upper register. Center register of opaque yellow, light-blue and light green trail is dragged alternately up and down. Below, two more yellow trails at greatest diameter. Present height 0.060 m, diameter 0.0513 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