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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. 79
- Date
- Ca. mid-6th c BC, Lydian
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 8151
- Museum Inventory No.
- 8151
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P95.024
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Skyphos
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Painted - Streaky
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- MMS
- Trench
- MMS-I 93.1
- Locus
- MMS-I 86.1 Locus 109
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E151 - E163 / S55 - S66.5 *99.3 - 98.2
- Description
- Ceramic skyphos with white bands. Conical foot, gently curving body turning in slightly at top; plain rim. Two horizontal loop handles. Exterior and interior painted with thick glossy slip, with distinct stacking line. No reserved band at handle zone. White bands on lower foot, exterior and interior of body. Mended from many fragments. Height 0.104 m, diameter of rim 0.105 m.
- Comments
- From the court of a Lydian house (Area 4-6, with Nos. 67, 70, 71, 76, 77, 89, 98, 99). A typical Lydian shape; see No. 77.
- See Also
- Greenewalt, “Lydian Pottery”; Greenewalt, “Bon Appetit”; Cahill, “Persian Sack”.
- Bibliography
- Greenewalt et al. 1995.
- Author
- NDC