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Overview of adjoining fragments. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Early Corinthian Aryballos Fragments
- Date
- Ca. 615-590 BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P65.016
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Aryballos
- Pottery Ware
- Early Corinthian
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W15 - W20 / S110 - S115 *98.90 - 98.60
- Description
Mid to Late EC. Nine fragments, eight joined. A rooster with crosshatched neck facing to right. The body is preserved from the neck to the tail, but some portions are missing. Added red on the forepart of the rooster's wing. In the field above the rooster's back are two rosettes, one small and one large. Portions of four carelessly rendered tongues appear on the shoulder of the vessel. The incision is fine and sure but quickly done. Glaze: black, glossy, and worn. Clay: hard, fine, and smooth, with faceted breaks. Yellow-buff. Munsell no. 10 YR 7/4 (very pale brown).
D. A. Amyx (in conversation, 1980) thinks the rooster with the crosshatched neck developed well along in EC, under the influence of lions with crosshatched manes. The type became popular in MC.
- Dimensions
- P.H. 0.042; diam. 0.053; Th. 0.003--0.004
- Comments
- Cf. CVA Great Britain 6, Cambridge 1, III.C., pl. 5, no. 17b (G.B. 244), rooster in the main frieze, dated EC; PayneNC no. 887, fig. 20:f (MC head-pyxis); for the position and stance, Amyx, “San Simeon” pl. 4:2, a flat-bottomed aryballos by the Otterlo Painter, fairly early in MC.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- JS