Lydian Cooking Ware
Turkey/Aegean
c. 1200-300 BCE
Iron Age I, Iron Age II-III, Achaemenid Persian
General Information
Lydian Cooking Ware is made from a coarse mixture of the local micaceous clay and various mineral tempers, with a high proportion of obvious quartz inclusions. The clay body is gritty and full of quartz inclusions. It is normally black (N3.5), sometimes with a brownish core (5YR 5/4), although a red variety is found. Color and surface are often altered by the fire to which it was subjected during use.
