• latw-76-1
    Flask. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)

    Flask

    Date
    Ca. mid-6th c BC, Lydian
    Museum
    Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 6599
    Museum Inventory No.
    6599
    Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
    P86.114
    Material
    Ceramic
    Object Type
    Pottery
    Pottery Shape
    Flask
    Pottery Ware
    Lydian Painted - Streaky
    Pottery Attribution
    Site
    Sardis
    Sector
    MMS
    Trench
    MMS-I 86.1
    Locus
    MMS-I 86.1 Locus 125
    B-Grid Coordinates
    E151.8 - E152.2 / S63 - S63.5 *99.5
    Description
    Large ceramic flask, meant to rest horizontally. Lentoid body thrown in two parts, very neatly joined with hardly a trace of a seam. Lower surface almost flat, upper convex. Neck with slightly thickened rim joined to one edge of body, angled slightly up. Two horizontal handles joined to edge on either side of neck. Black streaky-glaze on upper vessel, with two creamy bands framed by narrow purple bands. Reddish-brown cross painted on plain bottom. Mended from many fragments, almost complete. Height 0.114 m, diameter 0.263 m.
    Comments
    From the yard of a Lydian house (Area 4-6, with Nos. 67, 70, 71, 77, 79, 89, 98, 99).
    See Also
    Greenewalt, “Lydian Pottery”; Cahill, “City of Sardis”; Greenewalt, “Bon Appetit”; Cahill, “Persian Sack”.
    Bibliography
    Greenewalt et al. 1990, 151, fig. 14.
    Author
    NDC