Terracotta lydion (perfume jar), Archaic, 6th century B.C., Lydian, Terracotta, H. 4 1/8 in. (10.5 cm), Vases, 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 baccaris, a perfume for which Sardis was noted in antiquity
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