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Small streaky-glaze skyphos. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)
Small streaky-glaze skyphos
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 80
- 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