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Profile view of neck fragment. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College) -
Top view of neck fragment. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College) -
Drawing. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Middle Protocorinthian Aryballos Fragment
Monograph 10: The Corinthian, Attic, and Lakonian Pottery from Sardis
(1997)
Cat. Cor 11
- Date
- Ca. 690-670 BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P96.006
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Aryballos
- Pottery Ware
- Middle Protocorinthian
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W9 - W10.5 / S109.5 - S110 *99.4 - 99.1
- Findspot
- found in 1965
- Description
- Probably early in MPC. One-third of the mouth disk and the neck of a small aryballos. The disk is very thin and fine. There is a small lip at the outer edge of the disk and a groove on the outside where the disk joins the straight neck. On the top of the mouth disk is a series of five thin concentric circles, all neatly drawn and evenly spaced. A thicker circle surrounds the opening of the mouth. The underside of the disk and the neck are reserved. Glaze: chocolate brown, but no longer very glossy. Clay: hard and fine. Grayish green in hue. Closest Munsell no. 5 Y 6/3 (pale olive).
- Dimensions
- P.H. 0.01; diam. 0.025; Th. of mouth disk 0.003
- Comments
- Cf. Ephesos XII:1, 31, aryballos K78 (with lit.), pl. 17; dated as probably MPC.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- JS