• latw-66-1
    Coarse bowl. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)

    Coarse bowl

    Date
    Ca. mid-6th c BC, Lydian
    Museum
    Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 7081
    Museum Inventory No.
    7081
    Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
    P84.086
    Material
    Ceramic
    Object Type
    Pottery
    Pottery Shape
    Coarse Bowl
    Pottery Ware
    Lydian Plainware
    Pottery Attribution
    Site
    Sardis
    Sector
    MMS
    Trench
    MMS-I 84.1
    Locus
    MMS-I 84.1 Locus 34
    Description
    Plain coarse bowl with incurved rim. Irregular string-cut base, gently curving body, slightly ridged, slightly inturned rim. Almost complete, mended. Height 0.085-0.089, diameter of rim 0.132-0.147 m.
    Comments
    From a Lydian house destroyed in the mid-sixth century BC (Area 1, with Nos. 16, 62, 64, 65, 68, 72, 73, 75, 81, 87, 88, 96, 97, 100, 102, 103, 137, 138), together with two cooking pots and stand No. 61, strainer No. 65. This is typical of many very carelessly made bowls found in the Lydian houses. They might have been used for ordinary kitchen uses, but perhaps were containers for purchasing vegetables and other commodities in markets. Unlike most Lydian vases, which are generally very carefully made, these coarse bowls are often very irregular and casually thrown.
    See Also
    Cahill, “City of Sardis”; Greenewalt, “Bon Appetit”; Cahill, “Persian Sack”.
    Bibliography
    Greenewalt et al. 1988, 28, fig. 11.
    Author
    NDC