Orientalizing thymiaterion (?)
- Date
- Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P63.269
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Thymiaterion?
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Painted - Orientalizing
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Locus Bldg D, HoB Lydian I - Building D and Extension
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W16 - W20 / S103 - S106 *100.15 - 99.9
- Findspot
- W16-20 / S103-106 *100.15-99.90 ⁓ Building D
- Description
Seven joining and nonjoining fragments of thymiaterion (?). A: two joining fragments of upper body and knob. B: single fragment of shoulder, wall, and handle stump. C: four joining fragments of shoulder and body. Top body surface nearly flat, knobbed at top; sharp-angled transition from top to walls; nearly straight-sided wall; single stump of horizontal handle preserved. Red to orange over a fine creamy white slip. Knob painted red; three horizontal lines encircling knob; four pendent rays and seven-petalled floral decoration. Between rays, below each floral decoration, a large dot encircled with small dots. Then, a single horizontal line, a row of dots, and a thin band of square bars, alternately dotted and painted solid, with a single horizontal line above and below. A wider band on the carination. Reserved band at handle height: a row of birds to right. Between birds, a dot-rosette or crisscross and groups of short lines above and below. Five parallel lines below reserved band.
Local Orientalizing vessel, not Aeolic, according to N. Aytaçlar (personal communication, Sardis, July 1–2, 2016).
- Dimensions
- Fragment A: H. 0.034, H. of knob 0.02, W. 0.096, est. Diam. 0.016, Th. 0.005–0.007; Fragment B: H. 0.0072, W. 0.119, Th. 0.005–0.008; Fragment C: H. 0.052, W. 0.061, Th. 0.005–0.007.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- GGD