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Lekythos. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)
Lekythos
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 203
- Date
- Probably fifth century BC, Late Lydian (Persian)
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 9033
- Museum Inventory No.
- 9033
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P03.313
- 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
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W540 / S995
- Description
- Ovoid lekythos with flat, string-cut disc foot, tall body, broad outwardly thickened rim. Vertical oval handle going from neck to shoulder. Unpainted. Height 0.194 m, diameter 0.069 m.
- Comments
- From the same tomb as Nos. 196-205; found near the head of a skeleton, with No. 204. The tomb itself contained seven lekythoi, four at the head of the skeleton on one couch, one near the leg of another skeleton, and two more on the floor below the couches, perhaps rolled off from the foot of a couch (see Baughan, “Lydian Burial Customs”). Common as Greek grave goods, they probably held oil as an offering to the dead.
- See Also
- Baughan, “Lydian Burial Customs”.
- Bibliography
- Greenewalt 2005, 82-3; forthcoming study by Susanne Ebbinghaus.
- Author
- NDC