Early Corinthian Aryballos Fragment

Date
Ca. 620-590 BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P96.037
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Aryballos?
Pottery Ware
Early Corinthian
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
Locus
HoB Lydian I - Building D and Extension
B-Grid Coordinates
W15 - W17 / S102 - S105 *99.3 - 99.05
Findspot
Building D; found in 1963
Description
Portion of mouth, rim, and neck. Thin tongues, of which fifteen remain, spring from a line of glaze around the mouth. A second line of glaze surrounds the rim. Ends of thin tongues also appear at the join of the neck and shoulder. Glaze: glossy and black. Clay: hard and smooth. Yellow-buff. Munsell no. 10 YR 7/4 (very pale brown).
Dimensions
P.H. 0.031; diam. of neck 0.021, of rim 0.019
Comments
See Also
Bibliography
A somewhat similar effect can be seen in Cor 101 (the Lion Group).
Author
JS