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Orientalizing kantharos. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)
Orientalizing kantharos
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 81
- Date
- Ca. mid-6th c BC, Lydian
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 7431
- Museum Inventory No.
- 7431
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P86.073
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Kantharos
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Painted - Orientalizing
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- MMS
- Trench
- MMS-I 86.1
- Locus
- MMS-I 86.1 Locus 124
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E146.8 / S63.6 *99.42
- Description
- Ceramic kantharos. Flaring ring foot, ovoid lower body with high cylindrical neck and plain slightly everted rim. Two small upswung strap handles. White slip over upper body, dribbled onto lower body. Orange rays pendant from rim; petals pendant from junction between neck and rim. Band below shoulder. Orange slip on interior. Glazed foot. Mended from fragments, almost complete, one handle restored. Height 0.086 m, diameter of rim 0.070 m, diameter of shoulder 0.081 m.
- Comments
- From a Lydian house (Area 1, with Nos. 16, 62, 64, 65, 66, 68, 72, 73, 75, 87, 88, 96, 97, 100, 102, 103, 137, 138). The kantharos, with two vertical handles, is not a common shape in Lydian pottery, and the orientalizing decoration, although simple, marks this piece out as a special item.
- See Also
- Greenewalt, “Lydian Pottery”.
- Bibliography
- Greenewalt et al. 1988, 149, n. 19.
- Author
- NDC