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Overview of rim, neck, shoulder and handle. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Middle Corinthian Round Aryballos Fragments
Monograph 10: The Corinthian, Attic, and Lakonian Pottery from Sardis
(1997)
Cat. Cor 115
- Date
- Ca. 595-570 BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P86.082
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Round Aryballos
- Pottery Ware
- Middle Corinthian
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- MMS
- Trench
- MMS-II 86.1
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E117.5 - E119 / S78.3 - S81 *107.1
- Description
- Early in MC. Parts of the rim, neck, and shoulder are preserved, along with a complete handle. A series of very fine tongues radiates from a glazed circle around the mouth of the aryballos. Inside the mouth is a wider band of glaze with a thin glazed line above it. Another thin line of glaze encircles the tongues near the outside of the mouth disk. A line of dots decorates the rim. The back of the broad handle has six horizontal lines, beginning with a single wide band and followed by five thinner lines. On each side of the handle is a vertical band of glaze. On the shoulder are thin radiating tongues, three of which are partly preserved. Below is a series of horizontal lines. Three of the lines are visible beneath the handle. Glaze: dark brown to black. Clay: smooth and hard, with some small air pockets. Munsell no. 10 YR 7/3 (very pale brown).
- Dimensions
- P.H. 0.052; diam. of mouth 0.01; P.W. 0.048; Th. of rim 0.005
- Comments
- Cf. Cor 101, an aryballos from the Lion Group, which has a series of even thinner petals surrounding the mouth.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- JS