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Cooking pot. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)
Cooking pot
The Lydians and their World
Cat. 63
- Date
- Ca. mid-sixth century BC, Lydian
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 7500
- Museum Inventory No.
- 7500
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P88.031
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Cooking Pot
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Cookingware
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- MMS
- Trench
- MMS-I 86.1
- Locus
- MMS-I 86.1 Locus 124
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E148.9 - E149.2 / S64.5 - S64.8 *99.57 - 99.4
- Description
- Small globular cooking pot of coarse cookingware. Flat bottom, globular body, outturned rim. High-swung strap handle. Thin wash on exterior surface. Interior slightly eroded from use, exterior reddened on one side. Mended from fragments, almost complete. Height 0.120 m, diameter of rim 0.111 m.
- Comments
- From the kitchen of a Lydian house (Area 3, with Nos. 61, 78, 80, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86) together with cooking pot No. 61. See comment on No. 61.
- See Also
- Cahill, “City of Sardis”; Greenewalt, “Bon Appetit”; Cahill, “Persian Sack”.
- Bibliography
- Greenewalt et al. 1990, 149, n. 19.
- Author
- NDC