• latw-40-1
    Ritual Dinner skyphos. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)

    Ritual Dinner Skyphos

    Date
    Ca. 575-525 BC, Lydian
    Museum
    Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 2143
    Museum Inventory No.
    2143
    Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
    P61.402
    Material
    Ceramic
    Object Type
    Pottery
    Pottery Shape
    Skyphos
    Pottery Ware
    Lydian Painted - Streaky
    Pottery Attribution
    Site
    Sardis
    Sector
    HoB
    Trench
    HoB
    Locus
    HoB Locus cd10
    B-Grid Coordinates
    W4 / S89 *99.10
    Description
    Intact. Clay reddish-tan, micaceous. Inside, reddish slip; outside except for reserve handle zone and underside of foot, streaky reddish-to-sepia slip.
    Dimensions
    Height 0.0965 m; diameter of rim 0.096-097 m.
    Comments
    See Also
    Greenewalt, “Bon Appetit”; Greenewalt, “Gods of Lydia”; Cahill, “City of Sardis”; Greenewalt, “Lydian Pottery”.
    Bibliography
    Greenewalt 1978b, 62, no. cd 10.3.
    Author
    CHG