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Profile view of neck and shoulder. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Upper Portion of an Early Corinthian Alabastron
Monograph 10: The Corinthian, Attic, and Lakonian Pottery from Sardis
(1997)
Cat. Cor 98
- Date
- Ca. 620-590 BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P63.044
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Alabastron
- Pottery Ware
- Early Corinthian
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E0 - E5 / S110 - S115 to *99.20
- Description
- Part of the mouth, handle, neck and shoulder. On the mouth, radiating tongues; on the rim, large dots; on the neck, tongues, which are executed carelessly. On the shoulder is a portion of an incised rosette and a glazed area with parallel incisions, but the subject is no longer identifiable. Glaze: medium brown, glossy, crackled and worn. Clay: hard, smooth, and fine. Fired to different colors on the interior and exterior, giving the appearance of two layers of clay: interior, orange-buff (Munsell no. 7.5 YR 7/4, pink); exterior, yellow-buff (Munsell no. 10 YR 7/4, very pale brown).The slope of the mouth and the lack of framing lines around the tongues on the mouth are typical of EC alabastra.
- Dimensions
- P.H. 0.035; diam. of rim 0.03; Th. 0.004
- Comments
- Cf. Payne, NC nos. 266A, 267, 269, pl. 17:4, 5, and 11, all EC alabastra; CVA Great Britain 9, Oxford 2, III.C., pl. 1, nos. 57--61 (G.B. 384).
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Published: listed in BASOR 174 (1964) 13.
- Author
- JS