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Stemmed dish with graffito. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)
Stemmed dish with graffito
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 85
- Date
- Ca. mid-6th c BC, Lydian
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 7392
- Museum Inventory No.
- 7392
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P87.037
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery, Graffito
- Pottery Shape
- Stemmed Dish
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Painted - Black on Red - Banded
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- MMS
- Trench
- MMS-I 86.1
- Locus
- MMS-I 86.1 Locus 124
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E148.3 - E149.4 / S063.3 - S064.4 *99.5 - 99.4
- Description
- Ceramic stemmed dish with flaring foot, plain stem, plate with upturned lip. Orange to brown streaky-glaze on interior, with four sets of matte black spirals. Two similar graffiti incised on bottom of plate with fine tool, one with circle, line and radiating lines above, the other two “U”s connected by line. Complete, mended from 19 fragments. Height 0.090 m, diameter of rim 0.200 m.
- Comments
- See comment on No. 83.
- See Also
- Greenewalt, “Lydian Pottery”; Cahill, “City of Sardis”; Cahill, “Persian Sack”.
- Bibliography
- Greenewalt et al. 1990, 149, n. 18, fig. 11; Greenewalt 1991, 15, n. 25, fig. 21; Cahill 2000.
- Author
- NDC