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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 60
- Date
- Ca. 630-615 BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P96.021
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Uncertain
- Pottery Ware
- Corinthian Transitional
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- MTE
- B-Grid Coordinates
- *112
- Findspot
- MTE upper N end; Roman level; found in 1964
- Description
Tiny wall fragment. Raised wing of a bird with two ranks of flight feathers. On the feathers, added red alternates with black glaze. The wing bar is solid. The rosette in the field is round in shape with a crossed incision and alternating sections in added red and black glaze. The red appears to be applied directly to the clay. The incision is fine and sure. Glaze: almost entirely vanished. Clay: hard, fine, and smooth. Yellow-buff. Munsell no. 10 YR 7/4 (very pale brown).
Alternating colors are used on wing feathers by both the Painter of Vatican 73 and the Sphinx Painter, but the piece is too fragmentary to attribute to a specific hand.
- Dimensions
- P.H. 0.025; P.W. 0.023
- Comments
- Cf. CVA Italy 47, Como, III.C., pl. 1 a-c, no. 537 (the Sphinx Painter). For a similar filler, see Cor 61. For other examples of red that seems to be added directly onto the clay, see Cor 56, Cor 62.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- JS