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Cooking stand. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul) -
Group Photo of Cooking Artifacts from a Lydian House (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Cooking Stand
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 62
- Date
- Ca. mid-6th c BC, Lydian
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 6675
- Museum Inventory No.
- 6675
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P84.085
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Cooking Stand
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Cooking Ware
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- MMS
- Trench
- MMS-I 84.1
- Locus
- MMS-I 84.1 Locus 34
- B-Grid Coordinates
- *100.34
- Description
- Coarse cookingware stand to support a cooking pot on a hearth. Wheel-made tapering cylindrical body with ca. one-fourth of the diameter cut away to give access to coals within. Thickened lip, with beveled top where cooking pot rests. Three triangular tooth-like supports to hold pot. Strap handle at back. Complete, mended from nine fragments. Height 0.125 m, diameter of rim 0.178 m.
- Comments
- From a Lydian house destroyed in the mid-sixth century BC (Area 1, with Nos. 16, 64, 65, 66, 68, 72, 73, 75, 81, 87, 88, 96, 97, 100, 102, 103, 137, 138); found with a cooking pot nearby, still full of carbonized barley. Such cooking stands have been found with their cooking pots still in place on them (Greenewalt, “Bon Appetit”; Cahill, “City of Sardis”). They are fairly common in both Lydian and Etruscan pottery (Scheffer 1981).
- See Also
- Cahill, “City of Sardis”; Greenewalt, “Bon Appetit”; Cahill, “Persian Sack”.
- Bibliography
- Greenewalt et al. 1988, 28, n. 14, fig. 11-12.
- Author
- NDC