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Overview of the lower portion of the vessel. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College) -
Drawing: profile. (©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 47
- Date
- Ca. 650-620 BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P61.523
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Piriform Aryballos
- Pottery Ware
- Late Protocorinthian
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W15 - W20 / S95 *99.65 - 99.15
- Description
- Probably late in LPC or early in TR. Base and foot. A band of glaze appears near the break. Below, a series of tongues, placed close together and executed carelessly, springs from the join of the foot. No incision. Glaze originally covered the slant of the foot. The under part of the foot is reserved, with a small depression in the center. Glaze: black and worn. Clay: fine, smooth, and somewhat powdery. Yellow-buff. Munsell no. 10 YR 7/4 (very pale brown).
- Dimensions
- P.H. 0.033; diam. of foot 0.015; Th. at top of break 0.002
- Comments
- Cf. Ephesos XII:1, 38, K119, pl. 20; Corinth XIII, pl. 12, no. 78.3 (LPC); Furtwängler, Aegina pl. 126, no. 10; CVA France 9, Louvre 6, III.C.a., pl. 1, no. 5 (Fr. 385), from near Thebes; N. Kunisch, Antiken der Sammlung Julius C. und Margot Funcke (Bochum 1972) no. 42 with lit.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- JS