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Overview of lid fragment. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Fragment of a Corinthian Transitional Pyxis Lid
Monograph 10: The Corinthian, Attic, and Lakonian Pottery from Sardis
(1997)
Cat. Cor 64
- Date
- Ca. 630-615 BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P62.389
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Pyxis
- Pottery Ware
- Corinthian Transitional
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Locus Bldg C
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W20 - W25 / S80 - S85 *99.15 - 98.85
- Findspot
- C section 2
- Description
- Late TR. A large portion of a pyxis lid, including a section of the rim. Exterior: the top is glazed except for two reserved lines separated by a glazed line at the edge. A series of tongues radiates outward from the center to the edge of the rim, with added red applied to every third tongue. The tongues are formed by two straight lines which meet a separate curve at the end. The incision of the tongues overlaps both the reserved area and the glazed line on the rim. Interior reserved. Glaze: glossy black near the rim, fired to orange-brown elsewhere. Clay: fine, smooth, and hard. Yellow and pink areas in the clay are mixed; the appearance differs from the layered effect of other pieces (e.g., Cor 67). Munsell nos. 10 YR 8/4 (very pale brown) and 7.5 YR 8/4 (pink).
- Dimensions
- P.H. 0.03; diam. 0.10; Th. 0.005
- Comments
- Cf. Perachora II, pl. 31, no. 713 (inv. no. L.71), a black-polychrome phiale dated from LPC to TR. The pyxis lid from Sardis is more carelessly rendered and probably of a slightly later date. Supra, "Clay," 16-17 and n. 107.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- JS