• latw-42-1
    “Table setting” from a ritual meal, including plate, cup (skyphos), pitcher (oinochoe), stew pot (chytra), iron knife (Nos. 42-46). (Photograph by Crawford H. Greenewalt, jr.)

    Ritual Dinner Jug

    Date
    Ca. 575-525 BC, Lydian
    Museum
    Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 5362
    Museum Inventory No.
    5362
    Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
    P70.007
    Material
    Ceramic
    Object Type
    Pottery
    Pottery Shape
    Oinochoe
    Pottery Ware
    Lydian Painted - Micaceous Wash
    Pottery Attribution
    Site
    Sardis
    Sector
    PN
    Trench
    PN
    Locus
    PN Locus cd26
    B-Grid Coordinates
    W248 / S371 *86.6 - 86.4
    Description
    Intact. Clay reddish-tan, micaceous. Inside around rim and outside, highly micaceous yellowish slip.
    Dimensions
    Height (without handle) 0.151 m, diameter of rim 0.116 m. Volume capacity to lip 1670 cc.
    Comments
    Nos. 42-46 belong to another puppy dinner assemblage (Greenewalt 1978 , no. 26) recovered from an extramural occupation quarter at Sardis (excavation sector PN), located ca. 350 m west of the lower city fortification wall and close to the (present) Pactolus stream channel. No. 42, like No. 38, does not have cooking-ware fabric, although they resemble in shape standard Lydian cooking pots (e.g. Nos. 61, 63).
    See Also
    Greenewalt, “Bon Appetit”; Greenewalt, “Gods of Lydia”; Cahill, “City of Sardis”; Greenewalt, “Lydian Pottery”.
    Bibliography
    Greenewalt 1978b, 75, no. cd 26.1.
    Author
    CHG