• latw-72-1
    Waveline amphora. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)

    Waveline amphora

    Date
    Ca. mid-6th c BC, Lydian
    Museum
    Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 7087
    Museum Inventory No.
    7087
    Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
    P84.099
    Material
    Ceramic
    Object Type
    Pottery
    Pottery Shape
    Amphora
    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 waveline amphora. Small ring foot, ovoid body, slightly flaring neck with thickened lip. Two handles. Wavy line on neck; two wide diverging bands framing handles; symmetrical S-shaped tendril design on shoulder; wide streaky-glaze band on shoulder and narrower band on lower body. Complete, mended from many fragments. Few traces of wear or use; the vessel was probably close to new when the house was destroyed. Height 0.433 m, diameter of rim 0.243 m, diameter of shoulder 0.435 m.
    Comments
    From a Lydian house destroyed in the mid-sixth century BC (Area 1, with 16, 62, 64, 65, 66, 68, 73, 75, 81, 87, 88, 96, 97, 100, 102, 103, 137, 138). The waveline amphora is one of the most common shapes of Lydian vessel and, like the column krater (e.g., No. 73), is probably derived from Greek pottery shapes.
    See Also
    Greenewalt, “Lydian Pottery”; Cahill, “City of Sardis”; Greenewalt, “Bon Appetit”; Cahill, “Persian Sack”.
    Bibliography
    Greenewalt et al. 1988, 26-7, fig. 12.
    Author
    NDC