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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)
Lower Portion of a Late Protocorinthian Piriform Aryballos
Monograph 10: The Corinthian, Attic, and Lakonian Pottery from Sardis
(1997)
Cat. Cor 48
- Date
- Ca. 650-620 BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P61.252
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Piriform Aryballos
- Pottery Ware
- Late Protocorinthian
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E0 - E5 / S95 - S100 to floor *98.8
- Description
- Probably late in LPC or early in TR. Lower portion, slightly ovoid in contour. Scales with narrow borders, formed by two parallel incisions. The scales are executed neatly with their ends meeting. Below the scales are two lines of added red. Incised tongues at the base spring from an incised line at the join of the foot. Beneath the flat foot is a reserved area with a small depression in the center. Glaze: shiny, black, and very worn. Clay: smooth and fine, with irregular breaks. Yellow-buff. Munsell no. 10 YR between 8/4 and 7/4 (very pale brown).
- Dimensions
- P.H. 0.046; P.W. 0.045; diam. of foot 0.014; Th. at break 0.003
- Comments
- Cf. CVA Great Britain 9, Oxford 2, III.C., pl. 1, nos. 33, 43 (G.B. 384); CVA Denmark 2, Musée National 2, III.C., pl. 83, no. 3 (Den. 84); Furtwängler, Aegina pl. 126, no. 10; Ephesos XII:1, 36, pl. 19, K106, similar but not rendered as carefully (dated as probably TR); Neeft, Aryballoi 274, CX, CXI, CXIII, CXIV. On the scale pattern in general, ibid., 275--89.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Published: BASOR 166 14 (one piece of Cor 134 was found with it; Cor 134 is MC, rather than EC, and is intrusive).
- Author
- JS