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Stemmed dish with graffito of “snake.” (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)
Stemmed dish with graffito of “snake”
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 83
- Date
- Ca. mid-6th c BC, Lydian
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 7364
- Museum Inventory No.
- 7364
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P87.020
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery, Graffito
- Pottery Shape
- Stemmed Dish
- Pottery Ware
- Lydian Painted - Black on Red - Banded
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- MMS
- Trench
- MMS-I 86.1
- Locus
- MMS-I 86.1 Locus 124
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E148.6 - E149.4 / S063.6 - S064.4 *99.4
- Description
- Ceramic stemmed dish with flaring foot, plain stem, relatively flat plate with upturned lip. Thick slip on interior, orange on one side, fired or burned differently on other side to a streaky orange-brown. Four sets of black spirals on the interior of plate. Graffito on interior resembling a snake, with loop on right and wiggly body. Complete, mended from 10 fragments. Height 0.089 m, diameter of rim 0.218 m.
- Comments
- From kitchen of a Lydian house (Area 3, with Nos. 61, 63, 78, 80, 82, 84, 85, 86), in a pile of 23 almost identical stemmed dishes, including Nos. 82, 84, and 85. This graffito is found on two other dishes from this group, No. 84 and another (Manisa 7382, illustrated in Greenewalt, “Lydian Pottery”). Although similar, the graffiti are in different “handwritings,” suggesting that they were incised by different people. Compare the three graffiti on the stemmed dish from Gordion, No. 107.
- See Also
- Greenewalt, “Lydian Pottery”; Cahill, “City of Sardis”; Cahill, “Persian Sack”.
- Bibliography
- Greenewalt et al. 1990, 149, n. 18, fig. 11; Greenewalt 1991, 15, n. 25, fig. 21; Cahill 2000.
- Author
- NDC