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Ring askos from Sardis (No. 98) (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)
Ring askos
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 98
- 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