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    Flask. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)

Flask

Date
Ca. mid-6th c BC, Lydian
Museum
Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 6599
Museum Inventory No.
6599
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P86.114
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Flask
Pottery Ware
Lydian Painted - Streaky
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
MMS
Trench
MMS-I 86.1
Locus
MMS-I 86.1 Locus 125
B-Grid Coordinates
E151.8 - E152.2 / S63 - S63.5 *99.5
Description
Large ceramic flask, meant to rest horizontally. Lentoid body thrown in two parts, very neatly joined with hardly a trace of a seam. Lower surface almost flat, upper convex. Neck with slightly thickened rim joined to one edge of body, angled slightly up. Two horizontal handles joined to edge on either side of neck. Black streaky-glaze on upper vessel, with two creamy bands framed by narrow purple bands. Reddish-brown cross painted on plain bottom. Mended from many fragments, almost complete. Height 0.114 m, diameter 0.263 m.
Comments
From the yard of a Lydian house (Area 4-6, with Nos. 67, 70, 71, 77, 79, 89, 98, 99).
See Also
Greenewalt, “Lydian Pottery”; Cahill, “City of Sardis”; Greenewalt, “Bon Appetit”; Cahill, “Persian Sack”.
Bibliography
Greenewalt et al. 1990, 151, fig. 14.
Author
NDC