• latw-65-1
    Strainer. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)

    Strainer

    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