• latw-98-1
    Ring askos from Sardis (No. 98) (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)

    Ring askos

    Date
    Ca. mid-6th c BC, Lydian
    Museum
    Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 7485
    Museum Inventory No.
    7485
    Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
    P86.068
    Material
    Ceramic
    Object Type
    Pottery
    Pottery Shape
    Askos
    Pottery Ware
    Lydian Grayware
    Pottery Attribution
    Site
    Sardis
    Sector
    MMS
    Trench
    MMS-I 86.1
    Locus
    MMS-I 86.1 Locus 125
    B-Grid Coordinates
    E150.1 / S62.8 *99.4
    Description
    Medium-size gray ring askos. Doughnut-shaped body, low vertical neck, flaring rim. Single basket handle from top of body to neck. Gray semi-matte slip on entire body, possibly slightly burnished. Complete, mended. Height 0.049 m, diameter 0.097 m.
    Comments
    From the court of a Lydian house destroyed in the mid-sixth century BC (Area 4-6, with Nos. 67, 70, 71, 76, 77, 79, 89, 99), together with four other ring askoi including No. 99, the orientalizing lebes No. 71, and other objects. The ring askos is not a common shape in Lydia or elsewhere, but is widely distributed in time and space, from Mycenaean Greece to late-classical Italy. It is perhaps most common, however, in Archaic Asia Minor. For Archaic examples from nearby Klazomenai, see Güngör 2006.
    See Also
    Greenewalt, “Lydian Pottery”; Greenewalt, “Cosmetics”; Cahill, “City of Sardis”.
    Bibliography
    Greenewalt et al. 1990, 151.
    Author
    NDC