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

Late Corinthian Aryballos Fragment

Date
Ca. 650-630 BC., Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P96.012
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Aryballos?
Pottery Ware
Late Protocorinthian
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
Locus
HoB Lydian I - Building D and Extension
B-Grid Coordinates
W16 - W21 / S101 - S105 *98.2
Description
Probably LPC. Tiny shoulder fragment. The rounded ends of two tongues at the top, followed by a band of reserve. Scale pattern below, with a small part of two registers preserved. The scales have narrow borders created by two parallel incisions. They are carefully executed, with the ends of the arcs meeting exactly. Glaze: vanished. Clay: hard and fine. Munsell no. 10 YR 7/3 (very pale brown).
Dimensions
P.H. 0.025; P.W. 0.02; Th. 0.0025
Comments
Cf. Cor 39, Cor 45.
See Also
Bibliography
Author
JS