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Overview of mouth fragments. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Middle Corinthian Aryballos(?) Fragments
Monograph 10: The Corinthian, Attic, and Lakonian Pottery from Sardis
(1997)
Cat. Cor 121
- Date
- Ca. 595-570 BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P62.435
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Aryballos?
- Pottery Ware
- Middle Corinthian
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- PN
- Trench
- PN
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W245 - W250 / S370 - S375 *86.70 - 85.80
- Findspot
- W 245.00--250.00/S 370.00--375.00 *86.70--*85.80; PN W 237.00--239.00/S 372.00--375.00 *86.00--*85.70
- Description
Two fragments from the mouth. The top slopes inward and the profile is wedge shaped. On the mouth are petal-shaped tongues of fairly equal size and even distribution. On the edge of the rim are zigzags of two "steps" placed close together. Glaze: reddish orange and glossy. Clay: hard and smooth. Munsell no. 7.5 YR between 6/4 (light brown) and 7/4 (pink).
A stepped zigzag on the side of the rim is common during MC.
- Dimensions
- W. of edge 0.023; diam. 0.06; Th. 0.008 (both pieces)
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- JS