Middle Corinthian Ring Aryballos Fragment
Monograph 10: The Corinthian, Attic, and Lakonian Pottery from Sardis
(1997)
Cat. Cor 122
- Date
- Ca. 595-570 BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P61.429
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Ring Aryballos
- Pottery Ware
- Middle Corinthian
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E0 - E5 / S90 - S95 *97.70
- Description
- Fragment from the shoulder, neck, and handle of a ring aryballos. There are short tongues, varying in size and shape, on the shoulder. The remains of two concentric, incised circles appear on the upper body, with nine vertical incisions below. Glaze: mostly vanished; where preserved it is shiny and ranges from brown to black. Clay: hard, fine, and smooth. Yellow in hue. Munsell no. 10 YR 8/6 (yellow).
- Dimensions
- P.H. 0.016; P.W. 0.035; diam. of neck 0.015; Th. of wall 0.003
- Comments
- Cf. CVA Italy 10, Rhodes 2, III.C., pl. 6, no. 5 (inv. no. 12972), is close to the Sardis example. See also CVA Great Britain 9, Oxford 2, III.C., pl. 2, nos. 22, 24, 38, 40 (G.B. 385); pl. 3 for a side view of nos. 22, 40, which are very similar to Cor 122.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Published: BASOR 166 (1962) 15 (dated to PC).
- Author
- JS