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Overview of base fragment. (©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 109
- Date
- Ca. 615-590 BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P69.068
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Alabastron
- Pottery Ware
- Early Corinthian
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- PN
- Trench
- PN
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W272 / S361 *87.1
- Description
- Late in EC. Base. Bird, probably a goose, facing to left with outstretched wings. The body of the bird is preserved from the stomach to the tail, including the upper legs and lower wings. Added red on the wing bands. Three incised rosettes appear in the field below the far wing. On the bottom, short tongues radiate around a central depression. Several of the tongues are omitted to make room for the legs of the bird. Glaze: chocolate brown to black and glossy, but badly worn. Clay: hard, smooth, and fine with faceted breaks. Munsell no. 10 YR 8/6 (yellow).
- Dimensions
- P.H. 0.030; diam. 0.053; Th. 0.004
- Comments
- Cf. J. L. Benson, "Corinthian Vases at Wellesley College," AJA 68 (1964) pl. 554, no. 8, b, c. For the position of the bird, Payne, NC no. 457, pl. 20:2 (bird in the lower frieze); no. 338, pl. 17:6, dated EC. For the decoration of the base, CVA France 14, Louvre 9, III.C.a., pl. 35, nos. 8, 9 (Fr. 596).
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- JS