Early Corinthian Aryballos Fragment
Monograph 10: The Corinthian, Attic, and Lakonian Pottery from Sardis
(1997)
Cat. Cor 102
- 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