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Attic red-figured askos. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul) -
Attic red-figured askos. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)
Attic red-figured askos
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 200
- Date
- Late fifth century BC, Late Lydian (Persian)
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 9083
- Museum Inventory No.
- 9083
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P03.311
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Askos
- Pottery Ware
- Attic Red Figure
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- Nec
- Trench
- Tomb 03.1
- Locus
- Tomb 03.1 Locus 1
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W540 / S995
- Description
- Red-figured shallow askos. Disc foot, slightly projecting from body wall. Low body with shallow dome shape. Flaring spout; outturned rim with rounded lip. Handle from under rim to other side of body. Decoration on upper part of body. On one side, spotted deer facing left, without horns and raised forelegs. On other side, crouching sphinx facing right, with raised left foreleg. Height with handle 0.0667 m, height 0.0275 m, diameter of foot 0.0771 m, maximum diameter 0.0846 m, diameter of rim 0.0294 m.
- Comments
- From the same tomb as Nos. 196-205; see comment on No. 196. Dated by I. McPhee to “the last quarter of the fifth century (later perhaps rather than earlier)” (personal communication, 2004). The combination of animals in pursuit on the two sides of such askoi is not uncommon in Athenian askoi of the later-fifth century, although the combination of deer and sphinx is unusual.
- See Also
- Baughan, “Lydian Burial Customs”.
- Bibliography
- Greenewalt 2005, 82-3; forthcoming study by Susanne Ebbinghaus.
- Author
- NDC