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Overview of body sherd. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Fragment of a Corinthian Transitional Vessel of Uncertain Shape
Monograph 10: The Corinthian, Attic, and Lakonian Pottery from Sardis
(1997)
Cat. Cor 59
- Date
- Ca. 630-615 BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P63.341
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Uncertain
- Pottery Ware
- Corinthian Transitional
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W2 - W5 / S105 - S110 *99.60 - 99.10
- Description
Small wall fragment. At the top, thin lines of red alternate with black glaze. The red appears to be applied directly to the clay. In the animal frieze, part of the body of a bull facing to left, including the back, the belly, the left rear leg and the tail. Added red in the belly area. Light incision is used only for the belly and the thigh. Glaze: uneven, chocolate brown to black. Clay: powdery, fine, and smooth. Yellow-buff. Munsell no. 10 YR 8/4 (very pale brown).
D. A. Amyx (personal communication, 1986) notes that the configuration of the added red in the belly of the animal is "peculiar."
- Dimensions
- P.H. 0.035; P.W. 0.045; Th. of wall 0.004
- Comments
- Cf. Payne, NC pl. 13:4, bull in the lower register of an oinochoe dated TR.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Published: listed in BASOR 174 (1964) 13.
- Author
- JS