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Profile view of neck. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College) -
Mouth and neck of Proto-Corinthian aryballos. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Late Protocorinthian Aryballos Fragment
Monograph 10: The Corinthian, Attic, and Lakonian Pottery from Sardis
(1997)
Cat. Cor 43
- Date
- Ca. 650-630 BC., Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P65.175
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Aryballos
- Pottery Ware
- Late Protocorinthian
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian II - Bothros East of Building G
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W29 - W31 / S114 - S115 *98.2 - 97.2
- Description
Probably LPC. Most of the mouth disk and the neck of an aryballos. The disk is flat with a very thin lip profile. The underside of the disk slopes down slightly to meet the neck. The eight concentric circles on the mouth disk are fairly even in execution. Glaze: chocolate brown and glossy. Clay: hard, fine, and smooth with prismatic breaks. Munsell no. 10 YR 8/4 (very pale brown).
Found in a refuse pit with the top of a Corinthianizing aryballos, Cor 147.
- Dimensions
- P.H. 0.025; W. of handle stub 0.02; diam. of rim 0.04, of neck 0.015
- Comments
- Cf. Cor 11 for a finer and somewhat earlier example (MPC). The decorative type lasts for some time: see Payne, NC pl. 15:2 and 3 for examples from TR
- See Also
- See also: R8, No. HoB 495
- Bibliography
- Author
- JS