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    Overview of shoulder and upper body fragment. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Late Protocorinthian Aryballos Fragment

Date
Ca. 650-630 BC., Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P64.329
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Aryballos
Pottery Ware
Late Protocorinthian
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
MTW
B-Grid Coordinates
W22 - W25 / S132 - S136 *101.10
Description

Fragment from the shoulder and upper body. In the shoulder frieze, a hound (lower neck, front quarters, and belly preserved) coursing to left. His front foot rests on a band of black glaze marked by a line of added white. Below the hound's belly is a dot-rosette filler and a line of added white on the black band below the hound. Incisions are used for the paw, the front leg, and the curve of the shoulder. No rib incision. On the upper body of the aryballos is a scale pattern with four registers remaining. The scales are carefully executed. They have narrow borders created by two parallel incised lines. The ends of most of the arcs meet. Added red possibly alternating with yellow on the scales of the first row, black glaze for the second, and red again on the third. Compass points. Glaze: black and shiny. Clay: fine, smooth, and slightly powdery. Pinkish body with a creamy exterior. Munsell nos.: body, between 7.5 YR 8/4 (pink) and 10 YR 8/4 (very pale brown); exterior, 10 YR 7/4 (very pale brown).

The coursing hound is similar to those by the Painter of the Frankfort Olpe, but not by his hand.

Dimensions
P.H. 0.03; P.W. 0.04; Th. 0.003
Comments
Cf. Neeft, Aryballoi 137--141, for coursing hounds in general. For the hound type, see CVA Germany 25, Frankfurt 1, III.C., pl. 12, nos. 1--4 (pinwheel rosette and no rib incision); Perachora II, pl. 23, no. 430 (dot rosette), dated LPC; pl. 49, no. 1123 (similar leg marking), dated MPC-II--LPC; Albizzati, pl. 4, nos. 66, 69 (dot rosette, no rib incision). For the scale pattern: Benson, “Notes” pl. 69, figs. 7, 8 (MPC); Corinth VII:2, no. 18, pl. 4, dated TR; Ephesos XII:1, 21, K28, pl. 9.
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Author
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