• latw-78-1
    Streaky-glaze skyphos with reserve band. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)

    Streaky-glaze skyphos with reserve band

    Date
    Ca. mid-6th c BC, Lydian
    Museum
    Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 7439
    Museum Inventory No.
    7439
    Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
    P87.034
    Material
    Ceramic
    Object Type
    Pottery
    Pottery Shape
    Skyphos
    Pottery Ware
    Lydian Painted - Streaky
    Pottery Attribution
    Site
    Sardis
    Sector
    MMS
    Trench
    MMS-I 86.1
    Locus
    MMS-I 86.1 Locus 124
    Description
    Ceramic skyphos. Conical foot, gently curving body turning in slightly at top; plain rim. Two horizontal loop handles. Streaky-glaze over entire interior and exterior except for reserved band at handle zone. White bands on interior below rim and at bottom of cup, on exterior below reserved band, and on foot. Mended from many fragments. Height 0.135 m, diameter of rim 0.152 m.
    Comments
    From “kitchen” of a Lydian house (Area 3, with Nos. 61, 63, 78, 80, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86). A typical Lydian shape; see No. 77.
    See Also
    Greenewalt, “Lydian Pottery”; Greenewalt, “Bon Appetit”; Cahill, “Persian Sack”.
    Bibliography
    Greenewalt et al. 1990, 149, n. 19.
    Author
    NDC