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Profile view of neck,, handle stub, and shoulder. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Early Corinthian Alabastron Fragment
Monograph 10: The Corinthian, Attic, and Lakonian Pottery from Sardis
(1997)
Cat. Cor 100
- Date
- Ca. 620-590 BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P70.013
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Alabastron
- Pottery Ware
- Early Corinthian
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- PN
- Trench
- PN
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W237 - W239 / S372 - S375 *89 - 85.7
- Findspot
- Lydian Basement
- Description
- Neck, handle stub, and shoulder from a small alabastron. Hastily executed tongues on the neck. Below the tongues are two wide bands of glaze. Glaze: almost entirely vanished, but black and shiny where preserved. Clay: hard, fairly fine, and smooth. Greenish buff in hue with a creamy exterior. Munsell nos.: body, 5 YR 6/3 (pale olive); exterior, 5 YR 7/3 (pale yellow).
- Dimensions
- P.H. 0.03; diam. of neck 0.011; Th. 0.003
- Comments
- Cf. CVA Germany 36, Tübingen 1, pl. 22, nos. 6 and 7, inv. 1075 and 1150 (D. 1750), last quarter of the 7th C.; Ephesos XII:1, 19, K14, dated EC.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- JS