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Date : VIth century B.C.
Material : Terra cotta
Acquisition : Gift of the American Society for the Exploration of Sardis (1926)
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Greek Antiquities
Container
Vitrine : V05
Area related
Sardis (Turkey)
Site related :
Sardis
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Great numbers of these jars have been found at Sardis as well as around the Mediterranean. Because they seem to have been a speciality of Lydia, modern scholars call this type of vase a lydion. Such jars probably contained baccaris, a perfume for which Sardis was noted in antiquity.
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