• m10-cor-146-10
    Profile view of base and lower body. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
  • m10-cor-146-20
    View of base. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Lower Portion of a Corinthianizing Ovoid Aryballos

Date
Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P65.174
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Ovoid Aryballos
Pottery Ware
Corinthianizing
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
Locus
HoB Lydian II - Bothros East of Building G
B-Grid Coordinates
W29 - W31 / S114 - S115 *98.2 - 97.2
Description

Base and lower body, preserved from above the rays to the small foot. A band of glaze at the top followed by a reserved area with three thin lines. The tips of the thin rays touch the lowest line. The rays are carelessly drawn and their bases are not contiguous. They spring from a thin line of orange glaze. A second thin line of glaze marks the join of the foot. A wider line encircles the base of the foot. On the underside of the foot, the shape steps down on three circular and progressively deeper levels. Each step is marked by a line of orange glaze. Glaze: orange except in the darker brown rays. Clay: smooth and hard. Orange-red with a slightly yellow tint. Munsell no. 5 YR 7/6 (reddish yellow).

The shape and decoration imitate Corinthian ovoid aryballoi of MPC--LPC (cf. Cor 30, an oinochoe, for the decoration), but the shape of the vessel on the underside of the foot, as well as both the clay and the glaze, differ from Corinthian types. The clay is not local. C. H. Greenewalt, Jr., examined the piece in 1975 and suggested that it could be East Greek.

Dimensions
P.H. 0.027; diam. 0.033; diam. of foot 0.017; Th. of wall 0.004
Comments
See Also
See also: R8, No. HoB 494
Bibliography
Author
JS