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Streaky-glaze skyphos with reserve band. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)
Streaky-glaze skyphos with reserve band
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 78
- 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