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Hellenistic white-slipped relief-ware lidded jar. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul) -
Hellenistic white-slipped relief-ware lidded jar. Detail of relief medallion with beardless man wearing a lion scalp. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul) -
Hellenistic white-slipped relief-ware lidded jar. Detail of relief frieze with figures and vessels. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)
Hellenistic white-slipped relief-ware lidded jar
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 216
- Date
- Late Hellenistic, Hellenistic
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 2186
- Museum Inventory No.
- 2186
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P59.412ab
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Jar
- Pottery Ware
- Hellenistic Tableware
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- PC
- Trench
- PC
- Locus
- PC Tomb of the Lintel
- Description
- Pottery, broken, mended, partly restored. The finial of the lid has a central opening. One body handle missing and restored. Body is partly mold-made. White slip on exterior surfaces, over which decoration in reddish-orange to dark-sepia slip. On either side of shoulder-neck zone, centered between handles, a relief medallion, of which one survives, showing a beardless head wearing lion scalp. On lower body, relief pattern and friezes (figures, vessels, swags et al.). On lid, shoulder-neck zone, and upper body, painted floral motifs. Height with lid 0.418 m, maximum diameter 0.277 m.
- Comments
- Recovered from the same tomb (“Tomb of the Lintel,” in excavation sector PC) as No. 217. “Probably local” (Rotroff and Oliver 2003, 79). The possibility that the beardless head wearing lion scalp might represent Omphale was suggested by Hanfmann, and has been noted by others. If so, it is an early example of local legend represented in arts of Sardis (earlier examples, of the sixth century BC, might be reliefs on the back of the “Cybele Naiskos,” No. 34).
- See Also
- Greenewalt, “Introduction”.
- Bibliography
- Rotroff and Oliver 2003, 79-80, no. 306, pl. 50 (with older bibliography).
- Author
- CHG