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Profile view of the lower portion of the vessel. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Lower Portion of a Late Protocorinthian Oinochoe or Ovoid Aryballos
Monograph 10: The Corinthian, Attic, and Lakonian Pottery from Sardis
(1997)
Cat. Cor 29
- Date
- Ca. 650-630 BC., Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P61.407
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Oinochoe?, Ovoid Aryballos?
- Pottery Ware
- Late Protocorinthian
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E0 - E5 / S90 - S95 *98.00
- Findspot
- ”sand and gravel”
- Description
Probably LPC. Lower portion of what may be either a small oinochoe or an oversized aryballos. Three wide bands of glaze on the body and a glazed foot. Glaze: almost entirely vanished. Clay: fine, smooth, and hard. Yellow-buff. Munsell no. 10 YR 7/4 (very pale brown).
Oversized aryballoi were produced in both MPC and LPC.
- Dimensions
- P.H. 0.042; diam. of foot 0.025; Th. of upper wall 0.003
- Comments
- Cf. CVA Great Britain 9, Oxford 2, III.C., 60, pl. 1, nos. 8, 11 (G.B. 384); Payne, NC pl. 1:10. On the sizes of oinochoai, Johnston, “Pottery Practices” 205--15 and fig. 18
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- JS