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    Overview of body sherd. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Corinthian Transitional Aryballos Fragment

Date
Ca. 630-615 BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P96.019
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Aryballos
Pottery Ware
Corinthian Transitional
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
B-Grid Coordinates
W8 - W15 / S95 - S100 *98.4
Findspot
found in 1966
Description
Shoulder fragment. Incised dot-rosette on the shoulder. Below is a wide band of black glaze with a line of added red. Glaze: black and shiny, but worn. Clay: fine, hard and irregular at the breaks. The firing gives the appearance of two layers with pale orange on the interior, yellow-buff on the exterior. Munsell nos.: interior, 7.5 YR 7/4 (pink); exterior, 10 YR 7/4 (very pale brown).
Dimensions
P.H. 0.035; P.W. 0.041
Comments
See Also
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Author
JS