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Mouth and neck of aryballos, or imitation. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College) -
Mouth and neck of aryballos, or imitation. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Corinthianizing Aryballos Fragment
Monograph 10: The Corinthian, Attic, and Lakonian Pottery from Sardis
(1997)
Cat. Cor 147
- Date
- Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P65.176
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- 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
The top and neck. Exterior: an eight-pointed star. The tips of the uneven points impinge on the framing circle of glaze. The interior of the mouth is glazed. Glaze: dark orange. Clay: reddish in hue.
The star pattern closely imitates Corinthian types produced during LPC, but the clay is reddish and not Corinthian.
Found in a refuse pit with a Corinthian aryballos top, Cor 43 (LPC).
- Dimensions
- P.H. 0.025; diam. of rim 0.045, of neck 0.019; W. of handle 0.022
- Comments
- Cf. for Corinthian types, CVA Germany 36, Tübingen 1, pl. 21, nos. 3, 4 (D. 1749) (S./10 1274) aryballos with running dogs, dated LPC; Vallet and Villard, “MégHyb” 2, 44 and pl. 26:8, ovoid aryballos with running dogs in the belly frieze, wave pattern on the shoulder and a star on the mouth disk; dated LPC. Perachora II, 18, no. 41, pl. 2.
- See Also
- See also: R8, No. HoB 496
- Bibliography
- Author
- JS