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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. 84
- Date
- Ca. mid-6th c BC, Lydian
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 7382
- Museum Inventory No.
- 7382
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P87.021
- 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 *99.5 - 99.4
- Description
- Ceramic stemmed dish with flat, square-lipped flaring foot, plain stem, plate with upturned lip. Dark streaky-glaze on interior, with three sets of almost invisible matte black spirals. Interior quite worn and somewhat eroded. “Snake” graffito on interior of plate. Complete, mended from fragments. Height 0.102 m, diameter of rim 0.228 m.
- Comments
- See comment on No. 83.
- 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