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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 61
- Date
- Ca. 630-615 BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P96.022
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Uncertain
- Pottery Ware
- Corinthian Transitional
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W12 - W16 / S117 - S120 *99.5 - 99.3
- Findspot
- found in 1964
- Description
- Small wall fragment. Part of the neck feathers of a rooster, or the mane and front leg of a lion. Three tiers of feathers (or flame mane) are preserved. The triangular incisions have rounded ends. In the field is a round rosette. The sections are marked with a crossed incision and alternate black glaze with added red. The incision is executed neatly. Clay: fine and hard. Glaze: almost entirely lost.
- Dimensions
- P.H. 0.034; P.W. 0.025; Th. 0.003--0.005
- Comments
- Cf. for rooster, Payne, NC 282, nos. 277--79. The use of the round filler is reminiscent of PC work; see Benson, “Notes” 220, pl. 68, fig. 2, flat-bottomed oinochoe; see also Cor 60.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- JS