• latw-89-1
    Lid with orientalizing decoration. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)

    Lid with orientalizing decoration

    Date
    Ca. mid-6th c BC, Lydian
    Museum
    Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 8056
    Museum Inventory No.
    8056
    Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
    P93.046
    Material
    Ceramic
    Object Type
    Pottery
    Pottery Shape
    Lid
    Pottery Ware
    Lydian Painted - Orientalizing
    Pottery Attribution
    Site
    Sardis
    Sector
    MMS
    Trench
    MMS-I 93.1
    Locus
    MMS-I 86.1 Locus 109
    B-Grid Coordinates
    E153 - E154 / S064 - S065 *99.4 - 99.3
    Description
    Lid with orientalizing decoration. Tall body with almost vertical lower walls turning to slightly convex upper body. Handle in form of tall, slightly flaring ring. Exterior painted with creamy white slip, divided up into four zones, separated by wide bands of brown slip. Around handle, four preserved (originally five) groups of pendant petals. Midbody: wavy line with three-petalled flowers. Lower body: pendant petals above, row of large dots below. Handle painted with slightly lustrous brown slip. Mended from fragments, about 3/4 preserved. Height 0.102 m, diameter 0.225 m.
    Comments
    From the yard of a Lydian house destroyed in the mid-sixth century BC (Area 4-6, with Nos. 67, 70, 71, 76, 77, 79, 98, 99). It is not clear what vessel this was the lid to.
    See Also
    Bibliography
    Greenewalt et al. 1995, 17; Cahill and Kroll 2005, 601.
    Author
    NDC