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Stemmed dish with painted decoration. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul) -
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Stemmed dish with painted decoration, view of top. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College) -
Stemmed dish with painted decoration. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Stemmed dish with painted decoration
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 93
- Date
- Probably 8th or 9th century BC, Lydian
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 7115
- Museum Inventory No.
- 7115
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P86.059
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Stemmed Dish
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Painted - White on Black
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- ByzFort
- Trench
- ByzFort 86.11
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E675 - E672.5 / S344 - S347 *191
- Description
- Ceramic stemmed dish with painted decoration. Tall flaring stemmed foot, relatively deep plate with thickened, squared horizontal rim. Gray surface, decorated with white and black paint. Neatly drawn 16-petal rosette in tondo. Triangles on upper surface of lip, alternating in irregular pattern (solid, hatched, hatched with dots, partly filled). Vertical white bands on outside of lip. Closely spaced white bands on underside of plate and foot. Height 0.147 m, diameter 0.340 m.
- Comments
- From a subterranean “basement” on the summit of the Lydian terrace at sector ByzFort, with No. 92. See commentary to No. 92. 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