• m10-cor-27-10
    Round Pyxis Fragment (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
  • m10-cor-27-20
    Drawing (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Late Protocorinthian Round Pyxis Fragment

Date
Ca. 650-630 BC., Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P59.443
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Round Pyxis
Pottery Ware
Late Protocorinthian
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
Locus
HoB Lydian II - Test Pits into Lydian II Levels East of Lydian Room
B-Grid Coordinates
E15 - E20 / S55 - S60 ca. *96.5
Findspot
on floor, area 24
Description

Probably LPC. Fragment of an offset rim and handle. Exterior: remains of linear decoration in the handle zone; two vertical lines near the rim. Glaze: almost entirely vanished. Clay: fairly fine. Beige. Munsell no. 10 YR 7/3 (very pale brown).

According to Weinberg, the round pyxis with linear decoration continues in use to the end of the seventh century and has been found in EC graves at Corinth (”PC Geometric," 40; on his chronology, however, supra, "Kotylai with Linear Decoration," n. 32).

Dimensions
P.H. 0.031; diam. 0.12; Th. 0.005
Comments
Cf. Johansen, VS
See Also
See also: R8, No. HoB 572
Bibliography
Author
JS