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Lid with orientalizing decoration. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)
Lid with orientalizing decoration
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 89
- 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