One-Third of a Late Corinthian Warrior Aryballos
Monograph 10: The Corinthian, Attic, and Lakonian Pottery from Sardis
(1997)
Cat. Cor 140
- Date
- Ca. 570-550 BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P63.263
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Aryballos
- Pottery Ware
- Late Corinthian
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W10 - W12 / S108 - S111 *100 - 99.60
- Description
- Early in LC. One-third of a round aryballos preserved from neck to base. Five tongues remain on the shoulder. Two shields with incised decoration and a single rosette with a simple crossed incision remain in the belly frieze. Glaze: very worn, but black, crackled, and shiny where preserved. Clay: powdery and fairly smooth. Pinkish buff. Munsell no. between 7.5 YR 7/4 (pink) and 10 YR 7/3 (very pale brown).
- Dimensions
- P.H. 0.043; diam. 0.055; Th. 0.005
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Published: listed in BASOR 174 (1964) 13.
- Author
- JS