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    Lydion (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

    Lydion

    Date
    Ca. mid-6th c BC, Lydian
    Museum
    Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 6427
    Museum Inventory No.
    6427
    Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
    P85.022
    Material
    Ceramic
    Object Type
    Pottery
    Pottery Shape
    Lydion
    Pottery Ware
    Lydian Painted - Streaky
    Pottery Attribution
    Site
    Sardis
    Sector
    MMS
    Trench
    MMS-I 85.1
    Locus
    MMS-I 84.1 Locus 34
    B-Grid Coordinates
    E144.5 - E150 / S68.9 - S69.3
    Description
    Horizontally ridged lydion, with conical foot, globular body, wide flaring neck, horizontally everted rim. Painted with slightly streaky slip; burned, and original color uncertain. Intact. Height 0.074 m, diameter 0.061 m.
    Comments
    From a Lydian house destroyed in the mid-sixth century (Area 1, with Nos. 16, 62, 64, 65, 66, 68, 72, 73, 75, 81, 87, 88, 97, 100, 102, 103, 137, 138), in a cluster together with Corinthian aryballos No. 100, lydion No. 97, other perfume containers, including two other lydions, another miniature vase, probably local, jewelry, and other artifacts (see Cahill, “City of Sardis”).
    See Also
    Greenewalt, “Lydian Pottery”; Greenewalt, “Cosmetics”; Cahill, “City of Sardis”.
    Bibliography
    Greenewalt et al. 1988, 68, n. 14, figs. 10, 14-15.
    Author
    NDC