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Small tankard. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)
Small Tankard
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 6
- Date
- Ca. 2500-2000 BC, Early Bronze Age
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 7417
- Museum Inventory No.
- 7417
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P69.037
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Tankard
- Pottery Ware
- EBA Red-Brown Ware
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Ahlatlı Tepecik
- Sector
- BT
- Trench
- EB 69.1
- Locus
- EB 69.1 Locus Burial EB 69.3
- B-Grid Coordinates
- Bin Tepe Grid: E 4.4-E 4.4/N 3.4-N 3.4; * -
- Description
- Flat bottom, ovoid body (flattened to one side), continuous concave neck, flaring rim with rounded lip. Two holes in rim, one on each side, above two lugs at maximum diameter. One lug pierced, one lug grooved. Two knobs at maximum diameter between lugs. Height 0.065 m, diameter 0.055 m.
- Comments
- From an Early Bronze Age grave at Ahlatlı Tepecik on the shore of the Gygaean Lake (Grave 69.3), with Nos. 1, 2-3, 4, and 5.
- See Also
- Roosevelt, “Lydia Before the Lydians”.
- Bibliography
- Hanfmann et al. 1970, 15, fig. 4.
- Author
- NDC