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Ritual Dinner dish, from above. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College) -
Ritual Dinner dish, side view. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)
Ritual Dinner Dish
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 41
- Date
- Ca. 575-525 BC, Lydian
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 2215
- Museum Inventory No.
- 2215
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P61.405
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Dish
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Painted - Red Bichrome - Banded
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Locus cd10
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W4 / S89 *99.10
- Description
- Intact. Clay reddish-tan, micaceous. Inside and outside around rim in even zone and on lower body and foot, reddish slip over which narrow bands of black slip as follows: at center of bowl, spiral of seven-to-eight turns; at juncture of bowl and lip, spiral of three-to-four turns; on outer edge of rim, single band.
- Dimensions
- Height 0.0375 m; diameter of rim 0.142 m.
- Comments
- See Also
- Greenewalt, “Bon Appetit”; Greenewalt, “Gods of Lydia”; Cahill, “City of Sardis”; Greenewalt, “Lydian Pottery”.
- Bibliography
- Greenewalt 1978b, 62, no. cd 10.4.
- Author
- CHG