• latw-80-1
    Small streaky-glaze skyphos. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)

    Small streaky-glaze skyphos

    Date
    Ca. mid-6th c BC, Lydian
    Museum
    Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 7412
    Museum Inventory No.
    7412
    Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
    P87.054
    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
    B-Grid Coordinates
    E146 - E147 / S063 - S063.5 *99.4 - 99.3
    Description
    Tiny black ceramic skyphos. Conical foot, gently curving body turning in slightly at top; plain rim. Two horizontal loop handles. Black slightly streaky glaze on interior and exterior, including handle zone. White bands just below rim interior and exterior, at bottom of interior and at bottom of foot. Mended; part of foot and both handles restored. Height 0.065 m, diameter of rim 0.065 m.
    Comments
    From the “kitchen” of a Lydian house (Area 3, with Nos. 61, 63, 78, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86).
    See Also
    Greenewalt, “Lydian Pottery”; Greenewalt, “Bon Appetit”; Cahill, “Persian Sack”.
    Bibliography
    Greenewalt et al. 1990, 149, n. 19.
    Author
    NDC