• latw-75-1
    Oinochoe. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)

    Oinochoe

    Date
    Ca. mid-6th c BC, Lydian
    Museum
    Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 6546
    Museum Inventory No.
    6546
    Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
    P84.101
    Material
    Ceramic
    Object Type
    Pottery
    Pottery Shape
    Oinochoe
    Pottery Ware
    Lydian Painted - Banded / Waveline
    Pottery Attribution
    Site
    Sardis
    Sector
    MMS
    Trench
    MMS-I 84.1
    Locus
    MMS-I 84.1 Locus 34
    B-Grid Coordinates
    E147.2 / S67.4 *100.4 - 100.3
    Description
    Ceramic trefoil rim oinochoe. Plain disk foot, ovoid body, cylindrical neck with trefoil rim. Narrow high-swung strap handle. Rather poorly thrown, with major irregularities. Short, thick pendant petals on shoulder; two bands framing handle from neck to shoulder. Wide red streaky-glaze band around lower body, with three irregular purple bands painted over it. Exterior of handle painted with streaky-glaze. Mended from fragments, almost complete. Burned before and after breaking. Height 0.162 m, diameter of body 0.145 m.
    Comments
    From a Lydian house destroyed in the mid-sixth century BC (Area 1, with Nos. 16, 62, 64, 65, 66, 68, 72, 73, 81, 87, 88, 96, 97, 100, 102, 103, 137, 138). With its petal decoration on the shoulder, this is the other, and most common type of jug in Lydian ceramics in the mid-sixth century BC.
    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