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Overview of wall fragment. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Middle Corinthian Alabastron Fragment
Monograph 10: The Corinthian, Attic, and Lakonian Pottery from Sardis
(1997)
Cat. Cor 118
- Date
- Ca. 595-570 BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P96.041
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Alabastron
- Pottery Ware
- Middle Corinthian
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- PN
- Trench
- PN
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W250 - W255 / S380 - S385 *86.9
- Findspot
- fill; found in 1961
- Description
Probably early in MC. A small portion of the wall. Dolphin, diving to left, preserved from the eye to a portion of the incised triangular flipper (?). Two incised circles are used for the eye, and a single incised arc appears on the side of the head. There is no lower "fin." The incision is hesitant and irregular. Glaze: almost entirely lost. Clay: soft, smooth, and very powdery. Almost white. Munsell no. 10 YR between 8/2 (white) and 8/3 (very pale brown).
The fragment was found at the same coordinates as Cor 117, but on a slightly different level. The clay is exactly the same, but the hand is different.
- Dimensions
- P.H. 0.047; P.W. 0.035; Th. 0.0045
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- JS