• latw-44-1
    “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 Skyphos

Date
Ca. 575-525 BC, Lydian
Museum
Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 5359
Museum Inventory No.
5359
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P70.008
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Skyphos
Pottery Ware
Lydian Painted - Streaky
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
PN
Trench
PN
Locus
PN Locus cd26
B-Grid Coordinates
W248 / S371 *86.6 - 86.4
Description
Broken, complete. Clay reddish-tan, micaceous. Inside and outside, except for reserve handle zone and underside of foot, reddish slip.
Dimensions
Height 0.083 m, diameter of rim 0.095 m. Volume capacity to lip 380 cc.
Comments
See Also
Greenewalt, “Bon Appetit”; Greenewalt, “Gods of Lydia”; Cahill, “City of Sardis”; Greenewalt, “Lydian Pottery”.
Bibliography
Greenewalt 1978b, 76, no. cd 26.3.
Author
CHG