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Profile view of joining fragments. (©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 42
- Date
- Ca. 650-630 BC., Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P70.011
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Piriform Aryballos
- Pottery Ware
- Late Protocorinthian
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- PN
- Trench
- PN
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W237 - W239 / S371 - S375 *86 - 85.7
- Findspot
- Lydian Basement
- Description
- Two joining pieces, from the shoulder to the foot. Evidence of burning. Carefully incised tongues spring from the foot. Glaze: worn, but once black and shiny. Clay: hard with prismatic breaks. Yellow-buff. Munsell no. 10 YR 8/4 (very pale brown).May belong with Cor 41 and/or Cor 40, which were found nearby in a hearth or ash heap.
- Dimensions
- P.H. 0.029; P.W. 0.029; diam. of foot 0.015; Th. 0.003--0.005
- Comments
- Cf. Furtwängler, Aegina pl. 126, group 10; CVA Great Britain 9, Oxford 2, III.C., pl. 1, nos. 33, 43 (aryballoi from Cumae); CVA Denmark 2, Musée National 2, III.C., pl. 83, no. 3 (Den. 84); Payne, NC no. 478; Ephesos XII.1, 36--37, K107, K111, K112, pls. 19, 20 (dated as probably TR), similar but not as carefully rendered as Cor 42.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- JS