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Lydion from Old Smyrna/Bayraklı. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul) -
Lydion from Old Smyrna/Bayraklı. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)
Lydion from Old Smyrna/Bayraklı
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 33
- Date
- Ca. 540-520 BC?, Late Lydian (Persian)
- Museum
- Izmir, Archaeological Museum, 3479
- Museum Inventory No.
- 3479
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Lydion
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Painted - Banded / Waveline
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Old Smyrna/Bayraklı
- Description
- Pottery lydion. Fairly tough fabric; micaceous clay. Decoration in white slip and dark slip with metallic sheen: dark slip on neck; white slip over which stripes in dark slip over shoulder to mid-body; dark slip streakily applied over lower body and foot. Height 0.095 m; maximum diameter 0.072 m.
- Comments
- The shape is transitional between “fat bellied” and “late” examples: the body smaller than the former, the walls of lower body and foot thinner than the latter. The coin hoard No. 32.1-32.2, , 32.3, 32.4-32.6, 32.7-32.20 was found in this lydion.
- See Also
- Kroll, “Coins of Sardis”; Greenewalt, “Cosmetics”.
- Bibliography
- Cook 19581959, 30; Akurgal 1961, 151, 155 fig. 106.
- Author
- CHG