• latw-43-1
    “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 Oinochoe

    Date
    Ca. 575-525 BC, Lydian
    Museum
    Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 5360
    Museum Inventory No.
    5360
    Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
    P70.009
    Material
    Ceramic
    Object Type
    Pottery
    Pottery Shape
    Oinochoe
    Pottery Ware
    Lydian Painted - Dipped
    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 top of rim, across handle outer surface, outside on neck and body, bands in reddish slip.
    Dimensions
    Height (without handle) 0.103 m, maximum diameter 0.094 m. Volume capacity to lip 270 cc.
    Comments
    See Also
    Greenewalt, “Bon Appetit”; Greenewalt, “Gods of Lydia”; Cahill, “City of Sardis”; Greenewalt, “Lydian Pottery”.
    Bibliography
    Greenewalt 1978b, 76, no. cd 26.2.
    Author
    CHG