-
Flask. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)
Flask
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 76
- 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