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Stemmed dish with painted decoration. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul) -
Stemmed dish with painted decoration
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 92
- Date
- Probably 8th or 9th century BC, Lydian
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 7116
- Museum Inventory No.
- 7116
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P89.047
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Stemmed Dish
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Painted - White Bichrome - Patterned
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- ByzFort
- Trench
- ByzFort 89.11/12
- Description
- Ceramic stemmed dish with painted decoration. Low flaring foot, flat, thick-walled plate with squared rim. Interior decorated in orange on cream slip. Tondo entirely orange, although there is a pattern of abrasion in the shape of an asterisk that probably represents abraded decoration, perhaps originally in cream slip. Tondo framed by four concentric rings, alternately cream and orange; the cream portions are decorated with a running zig-zag pattern in thinned orange glaze. Vertical orange bands on rim. Mended from fragments, restored. Height 0.082 m, diameter 0.358 m.
- Comments
- From a subterranean “basement” on the summit of the Lydian terrace at sector ByzFort, with No. 93 and other stemmed dishes and jars (see Cahill, “City of Sardis”). They are large, finely made, and lavishly painted. The contrast with the later and plainer examples from ordinary houses, Nos. 82, 83, and 84, is striking. The date of these plates is still uncertain, but Cahill believes they are 8th or 9th c BC.
- See Also
- Greenewalt, “Lydian Pottery”; Cahill, “City of Sardis”.
- Bibliography
- Greenewalt et al. 1990, 160, n. 42; Greenewalt et al. 1993, 29, fig. 26.
- Author
- NDC