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Lydion (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Lydion
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 96
- 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