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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 specialty of Lydia, modern scholars call this type of vase a lydion. Such jars probably contained bakkaris, a perfume for which Sardis was noted in antiquity.
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Title: Terracotta lydion (perfume jar)
Period: Archaic
Date: 6th century BCE
Culture: Lydian
Medium: Terracotta
Dimensions: 4 1/8 × 3 1/16 in. (10.5 × 7.7 cm)
Classification: Vases
Credit Line: Gift of The American Society for the Excavation of Sardis, 1926
Object Number: 26.164.27
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