Ritual Dinner Dish
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 45
- 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