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Overview of wall fragment. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College) -
Drawing. (©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 111
- Date
- Ca. 615-590 BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P62.303
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Alabastron
- Pottery Ware
- Early Corinthian
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- PN
- Trench
- PN
- B-Grid Coordinates
- *87.60
- Findspot
- “Persian East” (For more on the findspot, infra, Pl. 3 and "The Lakonian Pottery," 134 and n. 9.)
- Description
Late in EC. Wall fragment from a small alabastron. A winged sphinx facing to left, preserved from mid-wing and chest through the lower leg. Portions of the wing, chest, front leg, back paw, and haunch are preserved. Added red on alternate feathers and on the wing bar. There is an incised rosette beneath the belly of the sphinx. The incision is quick and somewhat careless. Glaze: black, glossy, and badly worn. Clay: fairly fine, with obvious air bubbles in the wall. Pale yellow-buff. Munsell no. between 10 YR 8/4 and 7/4 (very pale brown).
This sphinx was probably one of a pair of confronted sphinxes. The body is more compact than those of most MC and LC sphinxes.
- Dimensions
- P.H. 0.04; P.W. 0.029; Th. 0.005
- Comments
- Cf. Payne, NC pl. 34:1, no. 1054 (plate from Corinth in Copenhagen); Perachora II, pl. 90, no. 2292 (the Perachora Painter, dated TR); CVA France 16, Rodin 1, III.C., pl. 4, no. 8 (no. 505) (Fr. 692), an MC aryballos; CVA Belgium 1, Brussels 1, III.C., pl. 2, no. 9 (Br. R-184). For the pose, Amyx, “San Simeon” pl. 7:1 (advanced years of MC, by the Stobart Painter).
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- JS