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Strainer. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)
Strainer
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 65
- Date
- Ca. mid-6th c BC, Lydian
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 6543
- Museum Inventory No.
- 6543
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P84.107
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Strainer
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Painted - Banded / Waveline
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- MMS
- Trench
- MMS-I 84.1
- Locus
- MMS-I 84.1 Locus 34
- Description
- Large strainer with three handles. Wide flaring lip, bowl-like perforated central strainer, which is pierced from the outside with holes. Score marks on exterior guided placement of holes. Three horizontal handles, circular in section, with flat lug-like join to rim. Concentric bands of thin orange red slip over entire interior and exterior and on handles. Complete except for one handle (broken and missing in antiquity? restored in plaster). Diameter 0.355 m, thickness 0.008 m.
- Comments
- From a Lydian house destroyed in the mid-sixth century BC (Area 1, with Nos. 16, 62, 64, 66, 68, 72, 73, 75, 81, 87, 88, 96, 97, 100, 102, 103, 137, 138), together with two cooking pots, and stand No. 62. A strainer was found in Tomb 43 at Sardis (New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art inv. 14.30.10, Butler 1922, 79).
- See Also
- Cahill, “City of Sardis”; Greenewalt, “Bon Appetit”; Cahill, “Persian Sack”.
- Bibliography
- Greenewalt et al. 1988, 28, fig. 11.
- Author
- NDC