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Profile view of vessel. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Nearly One-Half of a Late Corinthian Warrior Aryballos
Monograph 10: The Corinthian, Attic, and Lakonian Pottery from Sardis
(1997)
Cat. Cor 141
- Date
- Ca. 570-550 BC, Lydian
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, MANISA
- Museum Inventory No.
- MANISA
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P61.225A
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Aryballos
- Pottery Ware
- Late Corinthian
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E0 - E5 / S90 - S95 *99.30
- Description
- Early in LC. Nearly one-half of a round aryballos, preserved from the shoulder to the base. Two sherds, joined. Warrior frieze with one warrior remaining. On the shoulder are the lower portions of six tongues with two glazed lines below. In the frieze, a single warrior walks to left, carrying a large shield that covers all but his head and legs. His spear, held at an angle, protrudes above and below the shield rim. A circular incision, quick and careless in execution, separates the edge of the shield from its center. The helmet almost entirely covers the warrior's face. Simple curved incisions are used for the cheek-piece and eye opening of the helmet. Below the warrior are three glazed lines, carelessly executed. Glaze: dark brown to black and glossy, but applied unevenly. Clay: fine and smooth. Orangish yellow in hue. Munsell nos.: body, 7.5 YR 7/6 (reddish yellow); exterior, 10 YR 7/4 (very pale brown).
- Dimensions
- P.H. 0.05; diam. 0.070; Th. 0.005
- Comments
- Cf. for the warrior's head, CVA Denmark 2, Copenhagen NM 2, III.C., pl. 87, no. 11 (inv. no. 7284). For the general design, Tocra I, pl. 9:52, Ure Class IV.iv.c, dated LC.; for the helmet, CVA France 7, Bibliothèque Nationale 1, III.C.a., pl. 13, no. 22 (with a plain background); Payne, NC fig. 160, no. 1244, Group B (Warrior Group).
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Published: BASOR 166 (1962) 9, n. 18.
- Author
- JS