• m10-cor-28-10
    Profile view of the lower portion of the vessel. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
  • m10-cor-28-20
    Drawing. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Lower Portion of a Late Protocorinthian Oinochoe

Date
Ca. 650-630 BC., Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P84.117
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Oinochoe?
Pottery Ware
Late Protocorinthian
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
MMS/N
Trench
MMS/N 84.1
B-Grid Coordinates
E137.5 - E141.5 / S10 - S13.2 *95.7
Description
Probably LPC. The lower portion of the body and the foot of what was probably an oinochoe with linear decoration, restored from joining pieces. Exterior: seven thin horizontal lines appear on the belly, followed by three glazed bands of varying widths and a single glazed line. The tips of the short thick rays touch this line. The bases of the rays, which spring from a line on the foot, are not quite contiguous. There is another line of glaze on the lower part of the foot ring. Glaze: dark brown but badly worn in places, especially on the rays. Clay: hard and fine with some small air pockets. Munsell no. 10 YR 7/3 (very pale brown).
Dimensions
P.H. 0.067; P.W. 0.083; Th. 0.005--0.009
Comments
Cf. Cor 29, an oinochoe (or oversized aryballos), with a similar banded treatment of the lower body, but without rays at the foot.
See Also
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Author
JS