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Ritual Dinner jug. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)
Ritual Dinner Jug
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 38
- 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