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Coarse bowl. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)
Coarse bowl
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 66
- Date
- Ca. mid-6th c BC, Lydian
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 7081
- Museum Inventory No.
- 7081
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P84.086
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Coarse Bowl
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Plainware
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- MMS
- Trench
- MMS-I 84.1
- Locus
- MMS-I 84.1 Locus 34
- Description
- Plain coarse bowl with incurved rim. Irregular string-cut base, gently curving body, slightly ridged, slightly inturned rim. Almost complete, mended. Height 0.085-0.089, diameter of rim 0.132-0.147 m.
- Comments
- From a Lydian house destroyed in the mid-sixth century BC (Area 1, with Nos. 16, 62, 64, 65, 68, 72, 73, 75, 81, 87, 88, 96, 97, 100, 102, 103, 137, 138), together with two cooking pots and stand No. 61, strainer No. 65. This is typical of many very carelessly made bowls found in the Lydian houses. They might have been used for ordinary kitchen uses, but perhaps were containers for purchasing vegetables and other commodities in markets. Unlike most Lydian vases, which are generally very carefully made, these coarse bowls are often very irregular and casually thrown.
- See Also
- Cahill, “City of Sardis”; Greenewalt, “Bon Appetit”; Cahill, “Persian Sack”.
- Bibliography
- Greenewalt et al. 1988, 28, fig. 11.
- Author
- NDC