• m10-cor-66-10
    Overview of body sherd with scale pattern. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Fragment of a Corinthian Transitional Alabastron

Date
Ca. 630-615 BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P96.025
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Alabastron
Pottery Ware
Corinthian Transitional
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
B-Grid Coordinates
W5 - W9 / S110 - S113 *98.8
Findspot
found in 1965
Description

Probably TR. Wall fragment. A scale pattern covers the entire fragment. Portions of six registers remain. The pattern alternates rows of black-glaze scales and rows of scales with added red. All of the scales have narrow borders created by two parallel incisions. The compass has been misapplied so that the ends of the arcs either overlap or begin lower than they should. Glaze: almost entirely vanished. Clay: fine and hard. Creamy buff. Munsell no. 10 YR 7/3 (very pale brown).

Found in a layer of flood gravel with several rims from East Greek bird bowls, including P65.25:6615.

Dimensions
P.H. 0.029; P.W. 0.028; Th. 0.004
Comments
Cf. CVA France 9, Louvre 6, Inv. MNB 628, pl. 4, nos. 15--17, alabastron with animal frieze. Perachora II, 81, pl. 31, no. 719; also Ephesos XII:1, 20, K24, pl. 8 (alabastron), dated as "probably TR."
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Bibliography
Author
JS