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Overview of shoulder fragment. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Middle Corinthian Aryballos Fragment
Monograph 10: The Corinthian, Attic, and Lakonian Pottery from Sardis
(1997)
Cat. Cor 137
- Date
- Ca. 595-570 BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P90.036
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Aryballos
- Pottery Ware
- Middle Corinthian
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- MMS/S
- Trench
- MMS/S 90.C
- Locus
- MMS/S 90.C Locus 14
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E104.8 - E108.6 / S149 - S153 *113.63 - 113.06
- Description
- Late in MC. A fragment from the shoulder. Tongues with spatulate ends radiate from a circle of glaze around the neck. Portions of seven tongues are preserved. Below the tongues are two horizontal lines followed by two rows of false checkerboard pattern. The latter are carelessly rendered, appearing as dabs that often cross over the framing lines. Below the false checkerboard are two more parallel lines. The lower of these is overlapped by the decoration of the main frieze on the belly. The subject, possibly a warrior, is unclear. On the left, a blob rosette with a crossed incision appears in the field. Glaze: black, but dulled by wear. Clay: hard and fine with a few small pebbly inclusions. Munsell no. 10 YR 7/3 (very pale brown).
- Dimensions
- P.H. 0.034; P.W. 0.026; Th. 0.004
- Comments
- Cf. Cor 69 and Cor 70, for earlier examples of false checkerboards on aryballoi.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- JS