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Overview of shoulder and upper body fragment. (©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 45
- Date
- Ca. 650-630 BC., Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P96.015
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Aryballos
- Pottery Ware
- Late Protocorinthian
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W20 - W25 / S85 - S90 *100.2 - 99.6
- Findspot
- found in 1962
- Description
- Late in LPC. Large fragment from the shoulder and upper body. The lower ends of several tongues appear on the shoulder. Below the tongues is a wide band of glaze with what appear to be two narrow bands of added color. Scale pattern on the belly. All of the scales have narrow borders composed of two parallel incisions. The ends of the scales usually meet but occasionally overlap. Fine incisions. Compass points. Glaze: almost entirely vanished. Clay: hard and fine. Beige. Munsell no. 10 YR 7/3 (very pale brown).
- Dimensions
- P.H. 0.035; P.W. 0.046; Th. 0.004
- Comments
- Cf. for scale patterns, Cor 38, Cor 39.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- JS