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Overview of wall fragment. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Late Corinthian Warrior Alabastron Fragment
Monograph 10: The Corinthian, Attic, and Lakonian Pottery from Sardis
(1997)
Cat. Cor 143
- Date
- Ca. 570-550 BC
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P59.442
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Alabastron
- Pottery Ware
- Late Corinthian
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- UT
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E90 - E95 / S195 - S200 ca *120
- Description
- Wall fragment. Two warrior friezes. In the upper frieze, a series of warriors walk to the right. Only portions of two men remain. The warriors hold large round shields that cover all but their helmets and legs. The shields are not compass-drawn and are awkwardly incised, with brownish red added to the centers. In the field are a fan-shaped floral filler and dots. Three glazed lines separate the upper and lower friezes. The lower frieze retains only the helmeted head of a single warrior. The incision is broad and careless. Glaze: dark brown, glossy, and unevenly applied. Clay: hard and fairly fine. The clay is fired to different colors on the interior and exterior, giving the appearance of two layers: interior, pale orange (Munsell no. 7.5 YR 7/4, pink); exterior, yellow-buff (Munsell no. 10 YR 7/4, very pale brown).
- Dimensions
- P.H. 0.082; P.W. 0.076; Th. 0.005
- Comments
- Cf. Corinth XIII, 191, pl. 26 (inv. no. T1748, from grave 172). The following comparisons were suggested by D. A. Amyx (private correspondence, 29 January 1986): Payne, NC nos. 1229, 1230 (Delos 457--58); ibid., no. 1228 (Athens 290) from Tanagra. For the upside-down "fan rosette," ibid., 820 (Delos 353)
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- JS