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    Profile view of neck fragment. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Late Protocorinthian Piriform Aryballos Fragment

Date
Ca. 650-630 BC., Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P70.037B
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Piriform Aryballos?
Pottery Ware
Late Protocorinthian
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
PN
Trench
PN
B-Grid Coordinates
W236.8 / S373.4 *86.1
Findspot
found on a floor with charcoal SE of Lydian Basement
Description

Fragment from the neck and mouth. Band of black glaze around the opening of the mouth. Glaze: worn, but originally black and glossy. No incision. Clay: hard and smooth.

May belong with Cor 41, found in the same location in a hearth or ash heap, and/or Cor 42, found nearby.

Dimensions
P.H. 0.022; P.W. of rim 0.021
Comments
See Also
Bibliography
Cf. CVA Great Britain 9, Oxford 2, III.C., pl. 1, no. 43.
Author
JS