• latw-201-1
    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