• latw-45-1
    “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 Dish

    Date
    Ca. 575-525 BC, Lydian
    Museum
    Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 5361
    Museum Inventory No.
    5361
    Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
    P70.010
    Material
    Ceramic
    Object Type
    Pottery
    Pottery Shape
    Dish
    Pottery Ware
    Lydian Painted - Black on Red - Banded
    Pottery Attribution
    Site
    Sardis
    Sector
    PN
    Trench
    PN
    Locus
    PN Locus cd26
    B-Grid Coordinates
    W248.00 / S371.00 *86.50
    Description
    Missing part of rim, all of central zone, and foot; about one-fourth to one-third complete. Clay reddish-tan, micaceous, friable. Inside, on rim, and outside around rim, reddish slip over which decoration in black slip as follows: inside, three (spaced) narrow spiral bands of three-to-five turns each; on rim, eight-to-nine groups of narrow stripes between narrow bands; outside, narrow bands.
    Dimensions
    Restored height 0.055-0.06 m, maximum diameter 0.28 m.
    Comments
    See Also
    Greenewalt, “Bon Appetit”; Greenewalt, “Gods of Lydia”; Cahill, “City of Sardis”; Greenewalt, “Lydian Pottery”.
    Bibliography
    Greenewalt 1978b, 76, no. cd 26.4.
    Author
    CHG