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Lebes with lions and other creatures. View from side. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul) -
Lebes with lions and other creatures. Detail. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul) -
Lebes with lions and other creatures. Detail of lion. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)
Lebes with lions and other creatures
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 90
- Date
- 600-570 BC, Lydian
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 1676
- Museum Inventory No.
- 1676
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P63.366
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Lebes
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Painted - Orientalizing
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian I - Refuse Piles
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W11 - W13 / S103 - S104 to *99.5 - 99.2
- Description
- Pottery broken, mended, and partly restored. Exterior covered with cream slip over which decoration in reddish and dark brown-grey slip as follows: on rim, pattern band of alternating circles and dots and criss-crosses and dots, separated by pairs of vertical stripes; on shoulder and mid-body, animal friezes with filling ornament and border bands in red; on the shoulder frieze, spotted feline to left, two spotted deer to right, dog (?) to right; on the body frieze, palmette, grazing goat, and walking goat to right, two confronted walking lions, walking lion to right, walking deer to right. For filling ornament forms, distinctive coloring of animals, and proposed slip compositions, see Greenewalt 1970, 58-60, 74-75. Height 0.24.4 m, maximum diameter 0.32.2 m, measured brimful capacity 11.3 liters or 2.99 gallons (figures determined in 1996).
- Comments
- The lebes was recovered from an extramural occupation quarter of Sardis (sector HoB), with other pottery vessels, several of high-quality decoration, in what appeared to be a dump; No. 94 comes from the same dump. The distinctive combination of slips and decorative style is more or less closely paralleled in other orientalizing pottery at Sardis, and has been nicknamed “Sardis Style”.
- See Also
- Greenewalt, “Lydian Pottery”; Greenewalt, “Bon Appetit”; Greenewalt, “Introduction”; Cahill, “City of Sardis”. See also: R8, No. HoB 750.
- Bibliography
- Greenewalt 1970, 58-60, 73-75; Dedeoğlu 2003, 36, fig.
- Author
- CHG