• m10-cor-39-10
    Overview of small wall fragment with scale pattern. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Fragment of a Late Protocorinthian Vessel of Uncertain Shape

Date
Ca. 650-630 BC., Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P96.013
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Uncertain
Pottery Ware
Late Protocorinthian
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
B-Grid Coordinates
W10 - W13 / S102 - S108 *99.5 - 99.3
Findspot
found in 1963
Description
Probably LPC. Tiny wall fragment. Small scale pattern with portions of six registers preserved. Two fine parallel incisions form the narrow borders of the scales. The ends of these either overlap or do not quite meet. Compass points. Glaze: almost entirely vanished. Clay: smooth and hard. Beige. Munsell no. 10 YR 7/3 (very pale brown).
Dimensions
P.H. 0.02; P.W. 0.019; Th. 0.003
Comments
Cf. Cor 38, Cor 45.
See Also
Bibliography
Author
JS