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Lydion. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College) -
Lydion. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Lydion
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 97
- Date
- Ca. mid-6th c BC, Lydian
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 6431
- Museum Inventory No.
- 6431
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P85.026
- 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, everted, slightly downturned rim. Painted with streaky black lustrous slip, burned. Intact except for chips on foot and rim. Height 0.070 m, diameter 0.058 m.
- Comments
- Found with Corinthian aryballos No. 100; see commentary for that item.
- 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