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    Lydion (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Lydion

Date
Ca. mid-6th c BC, Lydian
Museum
Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 6427
Museum Inventory No.
6427
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P85.022
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Lydion
Pottery Ware
Lydian Painted - Streaky
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
MMS
Trench
MMS-I 85.1
Locus
MMS-I 84.1 Locus 34
B-Grid Coordinates
E144.5 - E150 / S68.9 - S69.3
Description
Horizontally ridged lydion, with conical foot, globular body, wide flaring neck, horizontally everted rim. Painted with slightly streaky slip; burned, and original color uncertain. Intact. Height 0.074 m, diameter 0.061 m.
Comments
From a Lydian house destroyed in the mid-sixth century (Area 1, with Nos. 16, 62, 64, 65, 66, 68, 72, 73, 75, 81, 87, 88, 97, 100, 102, 103, 137, 138), in a cluster together with Corinthian aryballos No. 100, lydion No. 97, other perfume containers, including two other lydions, another miniature vase, probably local, jewelry, and other artifacts (see Cahill, “City of Sardis”).
See Also
Greenewalt, “Lydian Pottery”; Greenewalt, “Cosmetics”; Cahill, “City of Sardis”.
Bibliography
Greenewalt et al. 1988, 68, n. 14, figs. 10, 14-15.
Author
NDC