• latw-63-1
    Cooking pot. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)

    Cooking pot

    The Lydians and their World (2010) Cat. 63
    Date
    Ca. mid-6th c 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 Cooking Ware
    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

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