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Overview of shoulder fragment. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Late Protocorinthian Piriform Aryballos Fragment
Monograph 10: The Corinthian, Attic, and Lakonian Pottery from Sardis
(1997)
Cat. Cor 41
- Date
- Ca. 650-630 BC., Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P70.037A
- 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
- Shoulder fragment. The lower part of three incised tongues appears on the shoulder, followed by parallel incisions which mark the upper portion of another row of tongues, facing downward. The style is similar to that of Cor 42. Glaze: almost entirely worn away, but originally black and shiny, covering the entire fragment. Clay: hard and burned. Munsell nos.: burned area, 2.5 YR 7/2 (light gray); unburned area, 10 YR 8/4 (very pale brown).May belong with Cor 40, found in the same location in a hearth or ash heap, and/or Cor 42, found nearby.
- Dimensions
- P.H. 0.03; P.W. 0.022; Th. 0.002--0.003
- Comments
- Cf. CVA Great Britain 9, Oxford 2, III.C., pl. 1, no. 43.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- JS