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Lydian Lamp (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Lydian lamp
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 88
- Date
- Ca. mid-6th c BC, Lydian
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 7479
- Museum Inventory No.
- 7479
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- L85.030
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Lamp
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- MMS
- Trench
- MMS-I 85.1
- Locus
- MMS-I 84.1 Locus 34
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E144.5 / S68.7 *100.3 - 100.22
- Description
- Open lamp, with horizontal rim with slight vertical edge. Large nozzle, showing traces of burning, flanked by two small pointed projections. High central cone. Painted bands at bottom of body, nozzle, top of rim, four bands on horizontal lip, one on interior floor of lamp. Slip now burned gray but probably originally orange-brown? Complete, burned. Height 0.03 m, diameter 0.098 m.
- Comments
- From a Lydian house destroyed in the mid-sixth century (Area 1, with 16, 62, 64, 65, 66, 68, 72, 73, 75, 81, 87, 96, 97, 100, 102, 103, 137, 138). Derived from Greek types, lamps do not seem to appear in the Lydian ceramic repertoire before ca. 600 BC. A collection of 10 such lamps was discovered in a building in sector HoB, leading to the suggestion that this building, and this region of Sardis, was used for commercial and industrial purposes (Hanfmann 1961, 12; Hanfmann 1980, 106, fig. 30). The house in which this lamp was found, however, contained seven lamps, but was not primarily commercial.
- See Also
- Cahill, “Persian Sack”.
- Bibliography
- Greenewalt et al. 1988, 68, n. 13, figs. 10-12.
- Author
- NDC