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    Small bowl. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)

Small bowl

Date
Second half of the fifth century BC, Late Lydian (Persian)
Museum
Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 9084
Museum Inventory No.
9084
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P03.310
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Bowl
Pottery Ware
Attic Black Glaze
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
Nec
Trench
Tomb 03.1
Locus
Tomb 03.1 Locus 1
B-Grid Coordinates
W540 / S995
Description
Small echinoid black-slipped bowl. Vertical ring foot, rounded lip angled inward. Interior center stamped with circle surrounded by 13 carelessly stamped eggs/tongues and four palmettes. Intact, worn. Height 0.0214 m, diameter 0.0556 m.
Comments
From the same tomb as Nos. 196-205; see comment on No. 196. Compare Sparkes and Talcott 1970, 870 (425-400 BC).
See Also
Baughan, “Lydian Burial Customs”.
Bibliography
Greenewalt 2005, 82-3; forthcoming study by Susanne Ebbinghaus.
Author
NDC