• m10-cor-30-10
    Profile view of the lower portion of the vessel. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
  • m10-cor-30-20
    View of the base of the vessel. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
  • m10-cor-30-30
    Drawing: profile. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Lower Portion of a Late Protocorinthian Oinochoe

Monograph 10: The Corinthian, Attic, and Lakonian Pottery from Sardis (1997) Cat. Cor 30
Date
Ca. 650-630 BC., Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P65.256
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Oinochoe?
Pottery Ware
Late Protocorinthian
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
Locus
HoB Lydian II - Building H
B-Grid Coordinates
W30 - W35 / S120 - S125 to *99.1
Findspot
the ground in this area rises; therefore PC levels are high
Description
Probably LPC. Lower portion of a small vessel, possibly a small or miniature oinochoe. A band of glaze with broad lines of added red appears near the break; below are three thin lines of dilute glaze. Eight rays of varying thickness and length, their bases contiguous, spring from the join of the foot. There is a reserved line at the join proper. The foot ring is glazed. The underside of the foot is reserved except for two concentric rings of glaze (one broad and one narrow, at the center). Glaze: light brown to black and glossy, with some streakiness in the rays. Clay: fairly fine, smooth, and hard. Munsell no. 10 YR 7/3 (very pale brown).
Dimensions
P.H. 0.035; diam. at break 0.055, of foot 0.025; Th. 0.003
Comments
Cf. for the decorative scheme, Corinth VII:1, pls. 335, 336, nos. 261, 266, 273, 275. For the shape, CVA France 7, Bibliothèque Nationale 1, III.C., pl. 9 (Fr. 293), nos. 6, 7 (oinochoai). On the sizes of oinochoai, Johnston, “Pottery Practices” 205--15 and fig. 18.
See Also
See also: R8, No. HoB 420
Bibliography
Published: BASOR 182 (1966) 14.
Author
JS

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