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    Side view of rim fragment. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
  • m10-cor-134-20
    Top view of rim fragment. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
  • m10-cor-134-30
    Drawing. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
  • m10-cor-134-40
    Drawing (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Middle Corinthian Krater Fragments

Monograph 10: The Corinthian, Attic, and Lakonian Pottery from Sardis (1997) Cat. Cor 134
Date
Ca. 595-570 BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P60.599A
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Krater
Pottery Ware
Middle Corinthian
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
B-Grid Coordinates
E0 - E5 / S95 - S100 to *99.2
Findspot
on floor
Description

Two joined fragments from the rim and neck. Five units of addorsed lotus-palmette chain remain on the top of the rim. These vary in size and shape. The incision is executed quickly and carelessly. On the side of the rim is a stepped zigzag pattern with four "steps." The bottom of the zigzag, in some cases, rests on the lower edge of the rim. Glaze: almost entirely vanished. Traces of glossy black glaze on the top of the rim; orangish red on the side. Clay: hard and medium in texture with irregular breaks. Yellow-buff. Munsell no. 2.5 YR 8/4 (pale yellow).

The stepped zigzag combined with the lotus-palmette chain is often used to decorate the rims of MC kraters.

Dimensions
P.H. 0.056; P.W. 0.035; diam. 0.033; Th. of Wall 0.011
Comments
Cf. Payne, NC 154, fig. 62:c, no. 1181 (Louvre inv. no. E630), a column-krater from Caere dated early in MC. Benson, “Notes” 227, pl. 75, figs. 34, 35, attributes a similar krater in Basel (private collection) to the Three Maidens Painter. D. A. Amyx considers the works attributed by Benson to the Three Maidens Painter to be the works of at least four different hands (private correspondence, 29 January 1986). He also rejects the Three Maidens Group. For the latter, see J. L. Benson, "The Three Maidens Group," AJA 73 (1969) 109--22 and pls. 33--42. See also W. E. Kleinbauer, "The Dionysios Painter and the 'Corinthio-Attic' Problem," AJA 68 (1964) 358 and n. 20, for more on this problem.
See Also
Bibliography
Published: BASOR 166 (1962) 14, n. 25; 162 (1961) 12 (intrusive in context; see Cor 48).
Author
JS

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