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Lekythos. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)
Lekythos
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 202
- Date
- Probably fifth century BC, Late Lydian (Persian)
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 9031
- Museum Inventory No.
- 9031
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P03.303
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Lekythos
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Plainware
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- Nec
- Trench
- Tomb 03.1
- Locus
- Tomb 03.1 Locus 1
- Description
- Ovoid lekythos with flat, string-cut disc foot. Rim missing. Small knobs on each side of shoulder; between, handle scar. Unpainted. Preserved height 0.1378 m, diameter 0.0806 m.
- Comments
- Found outside the tomb containing Nos. 196-205; see comment on No. 203. With its vestigial knobs on the sides and central handle, the shape makes reference to a hydria (Ebbinghaus).
- See Also
- Baughan, “Lydian Burial Customs”.
- Bibliography
- Greenewalt 2005, 82-3; forthcoming study by Susanne Ebbinghaus.
- Author
- NDC