• latw-74-1
    Oinochoe. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)

    Oinochoe

    Date
    Ca. mid-6th c BC, Lydian
    Museum
    Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 8813
    Museum Inventory No.
    8813
    Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
    P00.015
    Material
    Ceramic
    Object Type
    Pottery
    Pottery Shape
    Oinochoe
    Pottery Ware
    Lydian Painted
    Pottery Attribution
    Site
    Sardis
    Sector
    MMS/S
    Trench
    MMS/S 00.1
    Locus
    MMS/S 00.1 Locus 376
    B-Grid Coordinates
    E145.31 - E145.51 / S116.33 - S116.57 *102.45 - 102.29
    Description
    Globular ceramic oinochoe with trefoil rim. Ring foot, globular body, low neck with trefoil rim. Ridge around base of neck. Single rounded handle joins rim horizontally. Entire exterior and interior of neck coated in thin, slightly streaky red slip. Four horizontal white bands at midpoint of body below handle; two bands at bottom of foot. Row of dots on ridge at base of neck. Mended from many fragments, complete. Little worn. Slip darkened on portion exposed to fire in destruction, red on portion facing earth floor, suggesting original color was red before the house burned. Height 0.225 m, diameter of body 0.18 m.
    Comments
    From a Lydian house destroyed in the mid-sixth century BC (Area 7). Lydian jugs or oinochoai come in many different forms, even in the same houses at the same periods. Two major types in the time of Croesus are this and No. 75, but there are other varieties as well. Compare Nos. 39, 43.
    See Also
    Greenewalt, “Lydian Pottery”; Cahill, “City of Sardis”; Greenewalt, “Bon Appetit”; Cahill, “Persian Sack”.
    Bibliography
    Greenewalt 2002.
    Author
    NDC