• latw-38-1
    Ritual Dinner jug. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)

    Ritual Dinner Jug

    Date
    Ca. 575-525 BC, Lydian
    Museum
    Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 2177
    Museum Inventory No.
    2177
    Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
    P61.403
    Material
    Ceramic
    Object Type
    Pottery
    Pottery Shape
    Jug
    Pottery Ware
    Lydian Painted - Micaceous Wash
    Pottery Attribution
    Site
    Sardis
    Sector
    HoB
    Trench
    HoB
    Locus
    HoB Locus cd10
    B-Grid Coordinates
    W4 / S89 *99.10
    Description
    Intact except for small rim parts. Clay reddish-tan, micaceous, friable. Outside, highly micaceous yellowish slip.
    Dimensions
    Height (without handle) 0.1245 m, maximum diameter 0.102 m. Volume capacity to lip 1310 cc.
    Comments
    Nos. 39-41, together with bones recovered in No. 38 and an iron knife (Sardis Expedition inventory no. M61.081; broken) belong to a puppy dinner assemblage (Greenewalt 1978 , no. 10) recovered from an extramural occupation quarter at Sardis (excavation sector HoB), located between ca. 30 to 70 m outside the western lower city defenses; see Greenewalt, “Gods of Lydia.” No. 38, like the majority of ritual dinner jugs that have been recovered, including No. 42, has the fabric of ordinary crockery, and lacks the gritty composition of cooking ware.
    See Also
    Greenewalt, “Bon Appetit”; Greenewalt, “Gods of Lydia”; Cahill, “City of Sardis”; Greenewalt, “Lydian Pottery”.
    Bibliography
    Greenewalt 1978b, 62, no. cd 10.1.
    Author
    CHG